Pause Self, Resume on Event

[Don]

Aarti_pl wrote:
> Don pisze:
>> 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.
> 
> ...and - when same identifiers writefln/writef would be chosen - it will 
> also make easier writing programs which can work with Phobos *and* Tango.

Except that Tango is using .NET -style {1:x} formatting, instead of 
Phobos %x format. Otherwise I'd agree completely.

It would be nice if 'Hello world'-style programs would work on both 
Tango and Phobos.

> Also aliases string, wstring and dstring should be added to Tango for 
> compatibility reasons.

Yes.

> 
> BR
> Marcin Kuszczak
> aarti_pl