With the advent of the commonly known as "Modern C++", new features for generic programming were added, whilst the standard libray got many new types.

Most notably, the change of the meaning of the auto keyword greatly simplifies code maintainance and refactoring.

The aim of this small library is to provide a simple way to print in a human-readable form the unit used in convenience typedefs of std::ratio. It provides a number of specializations of the strratio template function that work similarly to the std::strerror standard-library function.

A special focus on efficiency has been put in the design and implementation of the library.

Simply #include the library into your C++ program and call the budda::strratio<ratio>() template function on the ratio type.

#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <strratio.hpp>

void process() {
  using clock = std::chrono::system_clock; // here you decide the type
  // from now on there is only generic code :)

  auto const start = clock::now();

  do_stuff();
  auto const stop = clock::now();
  auto const delta = stop - start;

  std::cout
    << "lasted "
    << delta.count() << ' '
    << budda::strratio<decltype(delta)::period>() << "seconds\n";
}

See the example folder for other examples.

The library is compatible with C++11, 14, and 17.