Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-07 03:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis"<jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.110.1331077432.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 17:38:09 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>
>>> Nope, apparently, I meant "dur". Ridiculous.
>>
>> A Duration needs to be constructed with a template, and
>> duration!"hours"(13),
>> duration!"seconds"(44), etc. is painfully long when used in expressions.
>> So,
>> it was shortened to dur. I don't know of any other abbreviation which
>> would
>> make sense.
>>
>
> This is exactly why "dur" never bothered me. Now that Adam's brought it up,
> I can see how it can be considered bad, but at the same time
> 'duration!"seconds"(44)' is a rather long to way to refer to x number of
> seconds.
>
> But, I'm thinking this whole "dur vs duration" matter is stupid anyway.
> Seconds, hours, etc *are* durations. What the hell do we even need the "dur"
> or "duration" for anyway?
>
> I say fuck it: Let's just toss this into core.time (or std.datetime or
> whatever) and be done:
>
> alias dur!"years" years;
> alias dur!"months" months;
> alias dur!"weeks" weeks;
> alias dur!"days" days;
> alias dur!"hours" hours;
> alias dur!"minutes" minutes;
> alias dur!"seconds" seconds;
> alias dur!"msecs" msecs;
> alias dur!"usecs" usecs;
> alias dur!"hnsecs" hnsecs;
>
> And then we have the brevity issue solved (and in fact, improved over
> "dur"), so then "dur" can (and should) change to "duration" without screwing
> up brevity. And all probelms are optimally solved. As for the possibility of
> new name collisions: Honestly, in this case I see no reason to give a shit.

I agree, adding these aliases would be a good idea.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg