BishBosh.Type.Count

AUTHOR

Dr. Alistair Ward

DESCRIPTION

• Defines distinct types for various conceptually different countable quantities to prevent accidental conflation.
• Nothing but the type is exported, facilitating reversion to unwrapped types.

Types

Type-synonyms

Data-types

type NCoordinates = Base

A number of (board) coordinates.

type NDecimalDigits = Base

A number of decimal digits.

type NDirections = Base

A number of directions.

type NGames = Base

A number of games.

type NLogicalColours = Base

A number of logical colours.

type NMoves = Base

A number of moves, i.e. each player takes one turn.

type NPieces = Base

A number of pieces.

type NPlies = Base

• A number of plies.
• CAVEAT: conceptually similar to NPositions in that a ply (half a move) defines a step down the move-tree to a new position; the difference is that positions don't necessarily relate to a consecutive sequence resulting from a game.
• CAVEAT: arguably the same type as NMoves, just double the value.

type NPositions = Base

A number of positions.

type NRanks = Base

A number of ranks.

type NSeconds = Base

A number of seconds.