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My current project code base has every unit and its friend refined.
Extract :-
...
typedef int m; // meter
typedef int htz;
typedef int s; // second
...
Good or Bad?
I hate it! Its a pain, there is no benefit, and “m” globally defined, omg!
But I want to state the reason why I hate it, in a bit more of technical/articulate manor… hello readers!
Can people list For/Against arguments for this pattern? Many thanks.
Better to make them custom types, as then you can control conversions and overload operators. Right now, I can do meaningless things like multiply a metre by a hertz. Ideally, m / s would yield a velocity- but it won’t. It’s meaningless to just
typedefthem like that.