It's only an incremental move in the right direction, but a good one. I am strongly in favor of this proposal.
-bt On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 3:59 AM Wojtek Mach <woj...@wojtekmach.pl> wrote: > Hi, I'd like to propose deprecating ~U in favour of ~UTC. > > I don't think the change would necessarily increase readability of > existing code given the common datetime format. I think the advantage is > discoverability, if we look at list of available sigils or Kernel functions > in general, this one will stand out and be immediately obvious what it > does. Another way to look at it, if multi-letter sigils were possible when > ~U was introduced, I think it would have been ~UTC all along. > > This is just a rename (with deprecation), there's no difference from ~U. > > Here's an example: > > ~UTC[2023-01-01 09:00:00Z] > > The trailing "Z" is somewhat redundant given we have the ~UTC in front but > I think that's OK. Personally, I would not be against dropping it but I > haven't thought it through so I'm not advocating for it either. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/9268db40-e21c-4d8e-b9c9-a5b79f8bb0f9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/9268db40-e21c-4d8e-b9c9-a5b79f8bb0f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Regards, Bruce Tate CEO <https://bowtie.mailbutler.io/tracking/hit/f8218219-d2a8-4de4-9fef-1cdde6e723f6/c7c97460-016e-45fb-a4ab-0a70318c7b97> Groxio, LLC. 512.799.9366 br...@grox.io grox.io -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAFXvW-69rYi-orYWQHAS9TJz4HnNyVmfwdbjHXZuWpz%3DpprqVA%40mail.gmail.com.
