We discussed it internally and the only concern at the moment is if it won't look inconsistent if we have ~UTC but still keep ~D / ~T / ~N.
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:59 AM Wojtek Mach <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JX4aRD9V7kb6uPowKnU5knbb_oXEyyekhQi%3DHeNLzQjA%40mail.gmail.com.
