Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 9 March 2012 at 21:36:28 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> I can't say I agree with this, as it pollutes the global 
> namespace with several common terms that could be used for 
> fields.

There's no such thing as a global namespace in D, and
field names wouldn't be affected even if there was one.

int minutes(int i) {
	return i;
}

struct A {
	int minutes; // not a problem
         void foo() {
              minutes = .minutes(1); // works
	}
}