Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 09:39:23 deadalnix wrote:
> Le 07/03/2012 04:46, Nick Sabalausky a écrit :
> > "Adam D. Ruppe"<destructionator at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> > news:bwqkuqhyiygvgqswicvz at forum.dlang.org...
> > 
> >> On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 03:24:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >>> I don't understand this complaint at all. curr is an incredibly common
> >>> abbreviation for current.
> >> 
> >> Is it your *first* choice?
> > 
> > In the general case, it frequently is for me. In the specific case of
> > Clock.curr(ent)?Time, I'm equally happy either way. Although I agree with
> > whoever it was (Brad?) that said "Clock.now()" would be even better.
> 
> The usage of current is often a smell that is saying « I had no clue how
> to name that, so I did name it using current ».
> 
> Meaningful name are what we should look for. And now is meaningful.

It's no more meaniful than currTime. It's just another name for the same 
thing.

- Jonathan M Davis