Pause Self, Resume on Event

[Don]

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 think it's a very important difference, actually. It makes it *feel* 
like as though Tango's been sucked into the ideology of putting free 
functions into a singleton object. And writefln() is the most visible 
function in Phobos. If someone says they prefer Phobos over Tango, most 
commonly, they mean they like writefln.

Making a simple wrapper/alias that calls Stdout -- AND MAKING IT 
STANDARD would, I think, do a lot for Tango, especially for first 
impressions.