On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 09:24 -0700, Amnon wrote: > > time.NewTicker( time.Duration(n) * time.Second ) ok : duration > > * duration [s^2] square-seconds ? > > Yes, this bothers the inner Physicist in me too. > But you can only multiply numbers if they are of the same type...
With a small amount of gymnastics a reasonable comfort can be found; types aren't units, but can be used to decorate them as such. This means they underly the notion of a unit. (Tangentially, there are packages that do dimensional operations, for example https://pkg.go.dev/gonum.org/v1/gonum/unit). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/00d2056025ad04d744082a72eb5249694e7b9e5d.camel%40kortschak.io.
