Does Go support creating types that are multiple of other types?

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I want something like

type bye

type kilo uint64 = 1024 * byte

etc …

2

No, you want multiply a type with a value and is not possible since in Go types are not values. The common practice is to define constants like const Kbyte = 1024 and use them, for instance from stdlib time package: time.Sleep(3 * time.Second) where:

type Duration int64
const (
	Nanosecond  Duration = 1
	Microsecond          = 1000 * Nanosecond
	Millisecond          = 1000 * Microsecond
	Second               = 1000 * Millisecond
	Minute               = 60 * Second
	Hour                 = 60 * Minute
)
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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

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