Bug 4

Summary:	Cryptic Time API
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjcarneiro>
Component:	core	Assignee:	ns-bugs <ns-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	api
Priority:	P1
Version:	pre-release
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro 2006-10-21 10:53:11 UTC

As I explained in [1], the current ns3 Time API contains very cryptic method names S(), nS(), and uS(), which I argue are harmful for code readability.  I suggest renaming to Seconds(), MicroSeconds(), NanoSeconds().

I also argue that the extra typing does not really affect much code in practice because convertion of Time() to a numeric value is (or should be) seldom necessary.

[1] http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2006-October/002468.html

Comment 1 Mathieu Lacage 2006-12-04 07:55:00 UTC

The new methods are named GetSeconds, GetMicroSeconds, GetNanoSeconds, etc.