[Haskell-cafe] Can Haskell enforce the dimension?

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 12:43:46 EDT 2010


Hello Haihua,

Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:28:23 PM, you wrote:

> In C++, template can be used to enforce the dimension. For example,
> F=m*a is OK and F=m*t will issue a compile time error.

> Is there a way to do this in Haskell?

yes. but standard * operation has type t->t->t. so you need either to
use other operation or don't import standard Num class


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