Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Stewart Gordon]

On 06/03/2012 16:38, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> One of the stumbling blocks on using std.datetime is how
> many bizarre abbreviations it has.
>
> auto time = Clock.currentTime(); // bzzt, wrong
>
> if(time - something > duration!"hours"(4)) // bzzt, wrong
>
> writeln(time.toISOExtendedString()); // bzzt, wrong, but this used to work!
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The mention of this one reminds me of another issue: capitalisation consistency.  It would 
be nice to standardise whether acronyms/initialisms occurring within names have just the 
first letter or all letters capitalised.  I'm thinking best is to treat them as words and 
therefore capitalise just the first letter.  Though I've been known to do otherwise in the 
past.

But it's confusing enough that there are still many functions in Phobos whose names are 
all lowercase when they should be camelCase.

The Java API is in a mess in this respect:
http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/inconsistencies.html

We'd have no trouble avoiding this if only Phobos was designed to be free of such 
inconsistencies from its beginning.

Stewart.