<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>Am 13.01.2016 um 00:06 schrieb Dave Abrahams <<a href="mailto:dabrahams@apple.com">dabrahams@apple.com</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Thorsten Seitz <<a href="mailto:tseitz42@icloud.com" class="">tseitz42@icloud.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Really great to hear that you are planning for Swift to be able to do these kinds of things!</span><div class="" style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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:</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Sadly, the lack of the ability to define a pretty shorthand for quantities is not what stands in the way, fundamentally.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I'm afraid I don't get your meaning here. Would you mind to explain a bit more?<div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>-Thorsten <br></div></body></html>