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A quick tip for better variable names
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In languages with static and convenient type systems, I try to instead encode units as types. With clever C++ templating, you can even get implicit conversions (e.g. second -> hour) and compound types (e.g. meter and second types also generate m/s, m/s^2 and so on).
IIRC F# even has built-in support for units.
A good example is Go's time package. You'd normally express durations like
5 * time.Second
and the result is atime.Duration
. Under the hood, it's just an int64 nanoseconds, but you'd never use it as a plain nanoseconds. You'd instead use it liked.Seconds()
to get whichever unit you desire.