New std.uni: ready for more beating

[Zach the Mystic]

On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 01:04:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Thursday, February 28, 2013 01:38:17 Zach the Mystic wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 23:17:42 UTC, Jonathan M 
>> Davis
>> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 22:07:04 Jacob Carlborg 
>> > wrote:
>> >> On 2013-02-26 21:13, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> >> > Really? There are a few (particularly older ones), but for
>> >> > the most part,
>> >> > I'd argue that that's not the case at all. In general, 
>> >> > IMHO,
>> >> > Phobos does
>> >> > an excellent job of having function names that are
>> >> > reasonably descriptive
>> >> > and are of a reasonable length. And, if anything, we tend 
>> >> > to
>> >> > err on the
>> >> > side of being too long (e.g. ElementEncodingType).
>> >> > 
>> >> > - Jonathan M Davis
>> >> 
>> >> These are just a couple:
>> >> std.datetime
>> >> currTime
>> >> Every member of the Month, DayOfWeek and Direction enums.
>> >> fracSec
>> 
>> Would 'now' be even better than 'currTime'?
>
> I don't think so (other than maybe due to the fact that it's 
> shorter), though
> I know that some people would think so. But it never even 
> occurred to me to
> call it that when I wrote it, and I don't think that anyone 
> ever brought it up
> during the review process.
>
> Regardless, currTime works just fine, and even if now would 
> have been better,
> it's not even vaguely worth it to rename it at this point.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Into my cryogenic idealistic freezer it goes!