NamedType VS da-unit

This article seems to be targeted towards beginners. From the title, I was expecting it to cover something like https://github.com/joboccara/NamedType, which is a technique I would recommend.

I haven't used this library in particular or this one, but bless the authors and all the others for trying to make it happen… the project I'm now leading uses strongly typed strings for different component addresses, and it saves me to constantly look up the documentation what the functions need – it's beautiful.

I think you are thinking of something like https://github.com/joboccara/namedtype

The basic jist is that if you use strong types, you can dispatch more easily inside the function. Because of how the template function is generically written, I don't need to do any manual calls to the template parameters, it all gets figured out through automatic template deduction. In this example I'm using really simple types, but in a more production system I would use something more along the lines of Jonathan Boccara's NamedType. Here is a great article that explains it pretty well [link].

For this purpose I'm pretty ok with Hungarian notation. Haven't found a nice type based solution yet. I tried to roll my own, but looking back I'm not really satisfied with it. Besides, I'm no longer doing anything with physics calculations.