Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 17:00:19 Brad Anderson wrote:
> I wasn't around for the creation of datetime but I'm curious why a boost
> datetime-like duration construction shortcut approach to durations wasn't
> used. That is, you can write weeks(1), months(6), years(10), hours(17),
> minutes(12), etc. (although there is now days(int) for some reason).

Because then you've got incredibly common names used as top-level symbols. 
It's also not generic at all. As it stands, you can have a function which does 
dur!units(value). You can't do that with weeks(1), months(6), etc.

- Jonathan M Davis