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
I think some of the modern languages handle this pretty well. Rust has algebraic data types thanks to its brilliant use of enums. Go has a similar type system. Taking the elapsedTime example from the post, for solving this duration related problem, a Rust programmer would use Duration::from_millis(millis) or Duration::from_secs(secs) and forget about the unit. It’s a duration, that’s what you wanna care about.
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I think some of the modern languages handle this pretty well. Rust has algebraic data types thanks to its brilliant use of enums. Go has a similar type system. Taking the
elapsedTimeexample from the post, for solving this duration related problem, a Rust programmer would useDuration::from_millis(millis)orDuration::from_secs(secs)and forget about the unit. It’s a duration, that’s what you wanna care about.