Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:53:44PM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 19:48:19 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> >Thanks to this thread, I bet you never forget that again ;)  I
> >know I won't...
> 
> Indeed. I actually did get currTime() right this time around,
> thanks to etching it in after getting it wrong the last two times.
> 
> Eventually, we get used to whatever name and can remember it.
> (Unless it is PHP's library which I swear self-mutates any time
> you aren't looking at it.)
[...]

Heh, I didn't know PHP had quantum mechanical properties. ;-) Can you
imagine PHP being the first language to run on a quantum computer? Oh
the horrors!


> Still though, we've spent a lot of time in phobos on things like
> capitalization so we can remember it without special thought. I really
> want to do the same on the abbreviations too.

IMO, making all abbreviations in Phobos consistent would be a big step
forward.

But Walter didn't seem to pleased about the recent pull request to add
aliases for seconds/secs, so this may or may not actually happen. :-(


T

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