On Saturday, March 10, 2012 05:31:31 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > Well, I gotta say, I'm with Adam on this one: I think "duration" is much > more clear, much easier to learn, and much easier to remember than "dur". > Granted, I'm all for abbreviations when they're common enough, such as > "curr" or "ident", but "dur" is just waaaay out there (And do we really need > to invite "D: The 'Durrr' Language" heckling?). > > That leaves "shorter" the only remaining reason, which becomes insignificant > with the aliases, since the full "dur/duration" would be only rarely needed > and the aliases are much shorter than even "dur".
Regardless of whether dur or duration is better, it's not worth the code breakage to change it. - Jonathan M davis
