"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:jj6gjm$2m6a$1...@digitalmars.com... > > 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. >
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/174 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/485 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/23 I completely understand the "secs==seconds" pull request being rejected and I think that's perfectly reasonable... But I'm going to be really pissed if this one's rejected out of some misapplied, overly-puritanical obsession with "no aliases".
