Fair enough. I don't want to stifle the adoption of Julia by other developers.
Maybe Ivar is correct: This might be better suited to be implemented as a 3rd party library. Maybe SIUnits (https://github.com/Keno/SIUnits.jl) On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 9:04:30 AM UTC-5, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 2:57:28 PM UTC-6, Stuart Brorson wrote: >> >> Since types should be used sparingly, I don't think it a good idea to >> replace convenience functions like sind and cosd with a type-driven >> invocation mechanism -- ordinary users will be confused. >> > > You also can't replace all of them, since the inverse functions can't be > dispatched in this way. Anecdotally, I use atan2d more than any of the > other *d functions, typically as a step on the way to making a plot. >
