On 2011-06-23 14:50, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > On 6/23/11, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:27:34 -0400, Jimmy Cao <jcao...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thread.sleep( 70_000_000 ); // 7 sec > > > > Gah! > > > > Here, let me fix that for you: > > > > Thread.sleep(dur!"seconds"(7)); > > > > :) > > > > -Steve > > I find it very odd that for seconds we use "seconds", but for > everything else we use "msec", "usec", "hnsecs" abbreviations.
Because it makes sense to use the full names up to seconds. After that, they're too long, so they get abbreviated. - Jonathan M Davis