Type-safe µs wrappers

[quchen]

It's too easy to mistake seconds for milliseconds or microseconds in the current state. Adding a new type would solve this problem for the most part, and make the code much more explicit, like so:

newtype Microseconds = Microseconds Int
      deriving ({- Lots of Int classes -})

[quchen]

Implemented in the above commit.

[kvanbere]

Maybe you could utilize base instead:

type Microseconds = Fixed E6

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.3.0.0/docs/Data-Fixed.html#t:Fixed

[quchen]

Oh, that looks interesting! I had no idea this even existed in Base. Thanks for the tip!