[swift-evolution] Epic: Typesafe calculations

[davesweeris at mac.com]

Nuts, I was hoping you knew something I didn’t.

Oh well, thanks for clearing that up.

- Dave Sweeris

> On Jan 12, 2016, at 15:08, Dave Abrahams <dabrahams at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 12, 2016, at 1:49 PM, davesweeris at mac.com <mailto:davesweeris at mac.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 8, 2016, at 02:42, Tino Heth <2th at gmx.de <mailto:2th at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>>> Those are both on the todo list, though, aren’t they?
>>> I can't prove you wrong, but do you have evidence?
>>> (that would be great - non-type template arguments are definitely on my to-propose list ;-)
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>> Depends on what you mean by “evidence”. I’ve been trying to remember what I was thinking of when I wrote that, and I *think* it was the word “when” (as opposed to “if”) in one of Dave Abrahams’s earlier posts in this thread:
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>>> On Dec 31, 2015, at 09:25, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>>>> If Swift would support non-type generic parameters, then I would like to have Boost.Unit library (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/boost_units.html <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/boost_units.html>) available in Swift.
>>> Yes, that’s an excellent design.  We really want to do this when we get the necessary language features (I hope we might also come up with some that improve readability a bit over what you can do in C++).
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>> So… do you have any thoughts on the matter, Dave? :-)
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> We don’t comment on future plans, sorry.  I was expressing an overly confident view of the future.
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> -Dave
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