Make dur a property?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-01-23 18:03, monarch_dodra wrote:
> I was using dur, and as powerful as it is, I *hate* typing:
>
> //----
> Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(100));
> //----
>
> Then, this reminded me of an older thread I started:
> Neat: UFCS for integer dot operator suffix
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/uchcycnsvykuojzhuokh@forum.dlang.org
>
> And then it struct me:
> //----
> Thread.sleep(100.dur!"msecs");
> //----
>
> Yay! Or even better:
> //----
> alias msecs = dur!"msecs"
> ...
> Thread.sleep(100.msecs); //Wow. Talk about expressive !!!

This is how it should look like. Date ranges in Ruby on Rails can be 
really beautiful:

date = 2.days.ago

I think we should have the same in D.

> What about making things like msecs public aliases? How do you feel
> about that?

Go for it.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg