top | item 30749777 (no title) rwcarlsen | 4 years ago It's not really overloading. it is associative: 2*time.Hour+1*time.second == time.Second+time.Hour*2 discuss order hn newest wtallis|4 years ago I believe that's illustrating commutativity, not associativity. thaumasiotes|4 years ago The illustration is wrong, but the claim is correct; multiplication between units and scalars is just as associative as you'd expect. Multiplying one kilowatt by an hour gives you exactly the same result as multiplying 1 by a kilowatt-hour.
wtallis|4 years ago I believe that's illustrating commutativity, not associativity. thaumasiotes|4 years ago The illustration is wrong, but the claim is correct; multiplication between units and scalars is just as associative as you'd expect. Multiplying one kilowatt by an hour gives you exactly the same result as multiplying 1 by a kilowatt-hour.
thaumasiotes|4 years ago The illustration is wrong, but the claim is correct; multiplication between units and scalars is just as associative as you'd expect. Multiplying one kilowatt by an hour gives you exactly the same result as multiplying 1 by a kilowatt-hour.
wtallis|4 years ago
thaumasiotes|4 years ago