Conflict between std.file write() and std.stdio write()

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 02:57:50 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
> On 10/3/13, Craig Dillabaugh <cdillaba at cg.scs.carleton.ca> 
> wrote:
>> void main( string[] args ) {
>>     string str = "Hello";
>>     write( "file.txt", str );
>>
>>     string hello_file = readText("file.txt");
>>
>>     writeln( hello_file );
>> }
>
> You can also disambiguate by preferring one symbol over another 
> with an alias:
>
> alias write = std.file.write;
>
> void main( string[] args ) {
>     string str = "Hello";
>     write( "file.txt", str );
> }
>
> You can also put the alias inside the function.

Thanks.

It seems that std.file should include a writeText() function for
the sake of consistency that is the above alias.  When you come
across readText() in the documentation you sort of expect that
such a function would exist, and then you spot write() below it,
and think hey that does what I need.  Then you hit upon the
syntax error if you are also using std.stdio (which is a very
commonly used module).

Adding writeText() doesn't really add much to the library, but
having to jump through hoops (as minor as they may be) to perform
such a simple op is a bit of a pain for people new to the
language.

Craig