Pause Self, Resume on Event

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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.

Is your issue here cosmetic or something else?  The Tango IO package is 
largely class-based because it allows for a lot more flexibility.  A 
function-based IO package couldn't easily support locales, for example. 
  If this is a cosmetic issue then it would be trivial to alter the 
calling convention to look exactly like writef / readf, but if it has 
something to do with the involvement of objects at all then that would 
obviously require a lot more work and the result would be much more 
limited.  For this level of work I still suggest simply using the C 
stdio routines.  After all, C++ doesn't even have function-based IO--it 
simply wraps the C standard library as well.


Sean