[swift-evolution] Support for newtype feature/typesafe calculations

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

> El 7/1/2016, a las 8:06, Félix Cloutier <felixcca at yahoo.ca> escribió:
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> I’d like to hijack this thread to talk about what the TI Voyage 200 could do as far as "type-safe calculations" go.

I don’t think you are hijacking it, I share your vision, but it seems drowned among all the protocol-wielding users.

> I’m not a very powerful template wizard, but I have no idea how you'd do it with C++ either.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23726038/how-can-i-create-a-new-primitive-type-using-c11-style-strong-typedefs for that.