(git HEAD) std.datetime spewing deprecation messages

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:00 -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:21:12 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> 
> > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12846
> >
> > Since when is x.hours, x.minutes, etc., deprecated?
> 
> As of Sunday. The problem is that they seem to be very prone for misuse.

I think x.hours and x.minutes are fine per se. I would suggest deeper
investigation of the perceived problems rather than just deprecate then
remove.

> Not only do they not match what TickDuration uses those same names for (it
> uses them for the equivelent of total!"hours"(), etc. rather than
> get!"hours"(), etc.), which has come up a number of times before, but what
> I've found at work (where we have a C++ port of Duration) is that pretty much
> everyone keeps using get when they meant total, consistently causing subtle
> bugs. So, I've come to the conclusion that the current design is just too
> bug-prone, and by deprecating the individual getters and renaming get to
> getOnly, I hope that that will seriously reduce the risk of misuse.

This all sounds like implementation detail rather than API usage. I
admit not having used this stuff in D, but the same basic system exists
in Groovy and it works just fine.

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