Pause Self, Resume on Event

[Bill Baxter]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
>> news:g5ocsa$2v3b$2 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> "dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:g5o4g7$2f5i$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>
>>>>> On another note, anyone have any idea when/if Tango for D2, and 
>>>>> Tangobos for Tango
>>>>> for D2, will be available?  There are things I like and dislike 
>>>>> about both Tango
>>>>> and Phobos, and I really wish I could mix and match modules from 
>>>>> them without
>>>>> giving up my D2 features.  For example, I like Phobos's much 
>>>>> simpler IO API, less
>>>>> "OO everywhere" look and feel and "simple operations should be 
>>>>> simple" mentality,
>>>> Why does everyone say that Tango is "OO everywhere"?  There are free 
>>>> functions (or static functions) that correspond to most free 
>>>> functions in Phobos.  Please, please give me some examples of what 
>>>> you believe to be "OO everywhere."
>>>
>>> One example: there are no stand-alone writefln/writef or 
>>> readfln/readf functions in Tango.
>>
>> --! I mean ------ come on.  You call a method of a statically 
>> allocated object.  As if that's really different?
>>
> 
> I have detailed in enhancement reports posted to the Tango tracker why 
> it makes a difference, so I'm not going to repeat myself here.

Not meaning to sound too stand-offish there.  Actually, I don't totally 
recall what the problems I had with it were, and I don't have time to go 
look it up now.

But I do find it quite typical when dealing with several Tango folks, 
this pattern of:
A: "oh come on -- tango is not really X! give me an example!"
B: <example provided>
A: "Pffft -- you're silly, go away."

That is most definitely off-putting.

--bb