TickDuration.to's second template parameter

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:03:25 -0400, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Saturday, April 07, 2012 15:59:57 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Whenever I use TickDuration.to, I need to add the pesky second argument,
>> e.g. TickDuration.to!("nsecs", uint). Would a default make sense there?
>
> Well TickDuration.nsecs is a wrapper for TickDuration.to!("nsecs",  
> long"),
> TickDuration.msecs is a wrapper for TickDuration.to!("msecs, long"),  
> etc. So,
> that's basically how defaults were added. I question that it makes sense  
> to
> add defaults to the to function itself - though having long chosen as the
> default doesn't really help you, since you'll either have to be explicit  
> like
> you have been or cast using the default version.

I think what Andrei is asking for is to change this:

T to(string units, T)() @safe const pure nothrow

Into this:

T to(string units, T = long)() @safe const pure nothrow

Which I don't think will hurt anything.

An additional annoyance that I would think is solved is you always have to  
include the parentheses.  i.e.:

td.to!"msecs"()

vs.

td.to!("msecs", long)();

-Steve