Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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>> 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.
>>
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> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/174
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> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/485
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> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/23
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> I completely understand the "secs==seconds" pull request being rejected 
> and I think that's perfectly reasonable...
>
> But I'm going to be really pissed if this one's rejected out of some 
> misapplied, overly-puritanical obsession with "no aliases".
>

Note how much *nicer* it makes all the sample and unittest code.