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*Number Dimensions*

I'm currently investigating the Kotlin-CSS-Wrapper (<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-wrappers/tree/master/kotlin-css>), and during migration of my CSS to that wrapper, I experienced, that using this DSL has some drawbacks over plain CSS: Dimensions of Numbers cannot be written that well as with plain CSS. So it would be really useful to have the possibility for giving a Number a dimension like this:

```
dimension val Int.px: MyDimensionedNumber  get() = MyDimensionedNumber(this, "px")
dimension operator val Int.unaryRem: MyDimensionedNumber  get() = MyDimensionedNumber(this, "%")
```

Then instead of using things like:

```
100.px
100.pct
```

This can be done:

```
100px
100%
```

Maybe this is even too narrowed down, and can be superseded with a more general feature.

I don’t think omitting the dot improves the code so much, that we need a special language feature to support this. Not even mentioning that it is almost impossible to have good language rules for suffix operators and functions.

Form a developers perspective I can totally understand that. But from the perspective e.g. form a WebDesigner, which works with the Kotlin-CSS-DSL, it is more intuitive to use such a language without the need of a dot between the number and the dimension. Actually, the dot itself maybe isn't the biggest issue, but also taking away the support to use "%" as prefix in a number is quite some issue (for non technical people) and makes the DSL not that friendly to use as plain CSS.

Well, Kotlin is not CSS, and not HTML, so you can’t write `&lt;div&gt;` but have to use kotlinx.html and write as `div { }`. If we were to support all syntaxes of all languages I don’t think it would be comprehensible language.