Re: Creating a new type, to get strong-ish type checking and restrict usage to certain operations, using struct perhaps

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 06:08:59 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 03:18:29 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
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I saw David Nadlinger's units package. I'd like to know how the 
strong typing works.

By wrapping in structs and overloading operators [1][2][3][4].

[1] 
https://github.com/klickverbot/phobos/blob/units/std/units.d#L727
[2] 
https://github.com/klickverbot/phobos/blob/units/std/units.d#L736
[3] 
https://github.com/klickverbot/phobos/blob/units/std/units.d#L756
[4] 
https://github.com/klickverbot/phobos/blob/units/std/units.d#L765