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Metaprogramming on Steroids: Overloaded Type Operators

15 replies on 2 pages. Most recent reply: Sep 28, 2005 11:25 PM by Howard Lovatt

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Howard Lovatt

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Re: Metaprogramming on Steroids: Overloaded Type Operators Posted: Sep 28, 2005 11:25 PM
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@Sean Conner

Your suggestion is what the proposal for Java does (JSR-275), e.g. they have a class Length which is the length in meters (SI) and conversion operators that take a value and a unit and convert them to meters. e.g.:
Length x = valueOf( 1, MILE ); 
Length y = valueOf( 1, MILE );
Length z = x.plus( y ); // OK
Area a = valueOf( 1, HECTOR );
z = x.plus( a ); /* Compile time error - you can't add a Length and an area */

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