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The home of the units Haskell package

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2015-02-05 · latest 2025-08-04

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  1. There 100% are unit systems implemented with types. (One example: https://github.com/goldfirere/units/tree/master/units ) Structural types does not preclude having some names that prevent mix-ups. Haskell’s `data` keyword doesn’t let you…
    comment by ashton314 · 2025-08-04 · in Names are not type safety (2020)
  2. …through the type system, e.g. using the units package https://hackage.haskell.org/package/units https://github.com/goldfirere/units/tree/master/units It even has nice features like: "The laws of nature have dimensions, and they hold true…
    comment by tobias2014 · 2023-11-03 · in Frink is a programming language designed to make physical calculations simple
  3. …you to do exactly that [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_... [2] https://github.com/goldfirere/units [3] https://github.com/bjornbm/dimensional
    comment by kilotaras · 2016-08-24 · in Types
  4. …https://bitbucket.org/xnyhps/haskell-unittyped/ . Though, enabled by GHC 7.8, units may now be nicer: https://github.com/goldfirere/units
    comment by pseudonom- · 2015-02-05 · in Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]