Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:09:47 -0500, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll never forgive std.datetime for this mistake:
>
> auto sw = StopWatch(AutoStart.yes);
> writeln(sw.peek.hnsecs);
> writeln(sw.peek.nsecs);
> writeln(sw.peek.usecs);
> writeln(sw.peek.msecs);
> writeln(sw.peek.secs);  // bzzzzz NOPE
> writeln(sw.peek.seconds);
>
> I misspell this thing every single time I use stopwatch to count seconds.

this is a no-brainer:

Duration dur(string units)(long length) @safe pure nothrow
     if(units == "weeks" ||
        units == "days" ||
        units == "hours" ||
        units == "minutes" ||
        units == "seconds" ||
        units == "secs" || // added
        units == "msecs" ||
        units == "usecs" ||
        units == "hnsecs" ||
        units == "nsecs")
{
     return Duration(convert!(units, "hnsecs")(length));
}

// etc, everywhere "seconds" is used, add "secs" as well.

I'll see if I can do a pull request.

-Steve