How does your team incorporate engineering units?

[hzheng_449]

For one, my team (we use LV) does not use this unit feature.

To begin with we weren't aware of the feature at all. (Though most of the senior coders have some cpp experience and know how typedefs can be used in cpp)

Also, I don't think it's likely we'll use this feature in the future. My personal opinion is that all our numerical data should be the same data type (ie doubles or rather the LV equivalent.) This makes life easier when coding and debugging since we don't have to cast everything which means 1) the code is less cluttered 2a) We can use LV and WPI libraries more easily since they all take standard numerical inputs 2b) We can ensure our own utility Vis will function for multiple modules of code (which may be using different units)

Moreover, the feature seems to be more of a crutch than a solution. Unit confliction can easily be solved with good planning, sanity checks, and testing.

;tldr: we haven't heard of it before, and we probably wont use it since it's easier to code w/o and the issues can be solved with good coding practice