On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 20:31:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 20:17:37 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
[...]
hnsecs is more confusing than nanoseconds. People know what a
nanosecond is, a hecto-nano-second is not as familiar a term.
Agreed, which is why Duration.toString shouldn't be used to
present durations to users.
Developers, however, are expected to know what a
hectonanosecond is, same as with all the other technical terms.
"hectonanosecond" looks like an illegal combination of SI
prefixes [1]. I recommend changing the meaning of hnsecs to
"[one] hundred nanoseconds".
[1] "Prefixes may not be used in combination."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
