A Different kind of Visual(ish) C++!

I think this is interesting, ingenious and also very odd! It's a C++ library (well header file) that lets you have Multi Dimensional Analog literals. It's using standard C++ operators to replace a literal like 4 with

unsigned int b = I---------I;
unsigned int a = 4;
assert( a == b ) ;


The assert is there just to prove that b is really 4. The number of dashes between two two I's is 9. Due to the way C++ operators work, the number of dashes must be = 2*n + 1. If you think that's odd, what about 2 dimensions? These one-dimensional analog literals are of type analog_literals::line, which is convertible to unsigned int.

Moving into two dimensions...

analog_literals::rectangle<X, Y>
  unsigned int c = ( o-----o
                      |
                      !
                      !
                      o-----o ).area;


I can't see myself ever making use of Analog Literals but if you want to try something a bit "out there"!

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