Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-07 19:50, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:jj74p4$n9r$3 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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.
>>
>
> I like that so many people agree with this. But I do want to point out
> again, just in case anyone missed it, that I'm hoping it would *actually*
> be:
>
> alias duration!"years" years;
> alias duration!"months" months;
> etc...

That's what I was hoping for as well.

> Since the aliases themselves mitigate the need for "duration" itself to be
> shortened.
>
> Course, I can still live with just 'alias dur!"years" years;..etc...'. The
> *main* thing is that we can just do "hours(5)"...(or heck, once UFCS finally
> gets fixed: "5.hours")

That would be so nice. Actually UFCS seems to have been merged now:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/b7742f7a733ff73d364c6ed54af70d875d7e911b

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg