That was my point. The earliest practitioners and language designers used the 
construct extensively but now others claim it is not the way. I find it hard to 
believe that in testing the original Go design the creators didn’t think about 
this - which means they decided it was fine. So why the change?

> On Dec 1, 2018, at 11:01 AM, Tristan Colgate <tcolg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the cases of time and context, the stutters appear in a primary type that 
> is important to the package, but rarely appears directly in normal API usage.
>   E.g., time.Now(), context.Background().  
>   Stutter is to be avoided. The package name can provide context. But stutter 
> is preferred to, e.g. time.Type, where one package largely operates on one 
> type
>   I doubt there would be a peer reviewed paper on something which is 
> basically just an opinion held by the language's earliest practitioners. It 
> doesn't mean the idea does not have merit though.
> 
>> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, 14:19 Robert Engels, <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> In another thread, it has been brought up that things like time.Time are no 
>> good. But this format is pervasive. Even newer packages like context.Context.
>> 
>> It seems to have been this way for a long time. 
>> 
>> It there some reasoned paper on why this is now so frowned upon?
>> 
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