print function

[ixid via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 4 February 2016 at 11:04:23 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 February 2016 at 10:18:35 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> Do you think your knowledge and experience is a good model for 
>> how a new user who hasn't done much if any programming before 
>> would approach this?
>
> A design choice had to be made and made it was. Adding another 
> function now (or worse, changing the existing ones) would only 
> bring more confusion for beginners and unconsistency to the 
> language. I firmly believe that no matter what your experience 
> you have having one and preferably only one way to do things is 
> more important to ease the learning process than having spaces 
> or not.

That's a nonsensical argument given the number of printing and 
writing functions that exist.