"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:jj74p4$n9r$3...@digitalmars.com... > On 2012-03-07 03:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Jonathan M Davis"<jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message >> news:mailman.110.1331077432.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >>> On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 17:38:09 Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >>>> >>>> Nope, apparently, I meant "dur". Ridiculous. >>> >>> A Duration needs to be constructed with a template, and >>> duration!"hours"(13), >>> duration!"seconds"(44), etc. is painfully long when used in expressions. >>> So, >>> it was shortened to dur. I don't know of any other abbreviation which >>> would >>> make sense. >>> >> >> This is exactly why "dur" never bothered me. Now that Adam's brought it >> up, >> I can see how it can be considered bad, but at the same time >> 'duration!"seconds"(44)' is a rather long to way to refer to x number of >> seconds. >> >> But, I'm thinking this whole "dur vs duration" matter is stupid anyway. >> Seconds, hours, etc *are* durations. What the hell do we even need the >> "dur" >> or "duration" for anyway? >> >> I say fuck it: Let's just toss this into core.time (or std.datetime or >> whatever) and be done: >> >> alias dur!"years" years; >> alias dur!"months" months; >> alias dur!"weeks" weeks; >> alias dur!"days" days; >> alias dur!"hours" hours; >> alias dur!"minutes" minutes; >> alias dur!"seconds" seconds; >> alias dur!"msecs" msecs; >> alias dur!"usecs" usecs; >> alias dur!"hnsecs" hnsecs; >> >> And then we have the brevity issue solved (and in fact, improved over >> "dur"), so then "dur" can (and should) change to "duration" without >> screwing >> up brevity. And all probelms are optimally solved. As for the possibility >> of >> new name collisions: Honestly, in this case I see no reason to give a >> shit. > > I agree, adding these aliases would be a good idea. >
I like that so many people agree with this. But I do want to point out again, just in case anyone missed it, that I'm hoping it would *actually* be: alias duration!"years" years; alias duration!"months" months; etc... Since the aliases themselves mitigate the need for "duration" itself to be shortened. Course, I can still live with just 'alias dur!"years" years;..etc...'. The *main* thing is that we can just do "hours(5)"...(or heck, once UFCS finally gets fixed: "5.hours")
