EDIT: I know it’s better to use types to represent units. Please don’t write yet another comment about it. You can find my response to that point here: https://programming.dev/comment/219329
Not sure what languages you commonly work with, but in good modern languages you can simply declare “feet” as an alias of integer (or double?), and no refactoring would be required.
And any good toolchain to parse / generate JSON/etc can absolutely get the types right.
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I absolutely agree. But:
Obviously as a Hungarian I have a soft spot for Hungarian notation :) But in these cases I think it’s warranted.
Not sure what languages you commonly work with, but in good modern languages you can simply declare “feet” as an alias of integer (or double?), and no refactoring would be required.
And any good toolchain to parse / generate JSON/etc can absolutely get the types right.