Re: [Emc-developers] on the integer question by Rene

[Robert S. <rm...@un...>]

On So, 2026-06-07 at 15:24 +0200, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote:
> Totally agree about the guarding problem. Software complain if pieces
> does not fit together is something good.
> 
> Even stronger typing do in many cases make sense. Creating voltage,
> current, temperature, angle and linear length types
> is some examples. Put a temperature value where an angle value is
> expected will rarely if ever make sense. Some
> programming languages even have types with limited range.

The HAL types only distinguish numerical types and don't carry units.

So it is absolutely possible to connect a temperature value to an angle
input.

We could keep a type as a "hint" and use double as storage at the same
time. 

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Robert Schöftner <rm...@un...>