Two easy pieces

[Nick Treleaven]

On 02/04/2013 14:33, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 01:10, bearophile wrote:
>> Sometimes you want to print something coming out of a UFCS chain with a
>> formatting string. In this case you can't append the writef/writefln at
>> the end of the chain. The problem is easy to solve with two simple
>> functions like this. Are they worth having in std.stdio?
>
> I think usually the format string is known statically, so we could have
> a template overload of writef[ln] with a compile-time format parameter.
>
> We can then use that overload for UFCS:
>
> 5.writefln!"hi %s!";

Of course, the main point of doing that is to compile-time validate the 
format string. But UFCS is a nice consequence.