[swift-evolution] Epic: Typesafe calculations

Dave Abrahams dabrahams at apple.com
Tue Jan 12 17:06:33 CST 2016


> On Jan 7, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Really great to hear that you are planning for Swift to be able to do these kinds of things!
> 
> I tried to see how far I could get (working from memory of a Haskell library; Boost.Units seems quite similar at first glance), but failed of course because of the missing parameterized recursive typealiases:

Sadly, the lack of the ability to define a pretty shorthand for quantities is not what stands in the way, fundamentally.


-Dave



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