Ok I understand why there is no conversion from Duration to float, but would be possible to make Duration.total not a member function? So insted of:

static mytotal(string unit)(Duration dur)

{

return dur.total!unit;

}

alias msecs = mytotal!"msecs";

I could just add

alias msecs = total!"msecs";

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On 11/22/2017 1:38 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:

My claim is not that conversion from time to floating point values associated with a few natural units is "properly part of the time abstraction", just that it should exist. Do you agree with that?

I refer to my reply to Jon Degenhardt which has a substantial answer to that.