Type safety and time units in Go and D

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

The question about how it is the way it is was about why the Go 
library allows things like that since the Go team apparently does 
believe in type safety. Nevertheless, thanks for the links!

Atila

On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at 13:24:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 1/20/15 5:44 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
>> My buddy Jeff never learns... he sent me a blog post link 
>> about Go
>> development today and I ended up comparing how the bug 
>> mentioned in the
>> blog post wouldn't happen in D:
>>
>> https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/type-safety-and-time-intervals-in-d-and-go/
>
> On the question of why that is the way it is, it's because we 
> actually thought of all that shit when designing the time 
> library :) I was a big proponent of not using the same type to 
> mean duration and timestamp, and only allowing sane operations. 
> Jonathan was the same way.
>
> You can see some if it here:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/340452.74950.qm@web58008.mail.re3.yahoo.com
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/201008141800.31122.jmdavisProg@gmail.com
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/201010081404.59147.jmdavisProg@gmx.com
>
>
> Ah, the nostalgia :)
>
> -Steve