Re: [julia-users] Re: Functions in degrees

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 7:57:10 PM UTC-5, MA Laforge wrote:
>
> The real question is how much programming overhead is required to use 
> these types (assuming the compiler does the grunt work reducing the 
> *performance* overhead)
>
 
No, the real question is whether the benefit of using special types for 
radians vs. degrees would outweigh the costs of retraining every single 
user from every single previous mainstream programming language.   To me, 
there is no contest — doing angles differently from every other programming 
language would impose enormous costs in teaching, documentation, and 
support (imagine the never-ending flood of mailing-list questions) that 
would completely overwhelm the benefit of eliminating a "d" suffix on a few 
functions and automating a few angle conversions.