import strangeness with std.stdio.write

Seb seb at wilzba.ch
Tue Feb 13 16:59:36 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 16:55:10 UTC, ixid wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 13:52:37 UTC, rikki cattermole 
> wrote:
>> write exists in both, writeln exists only in std.stdio.
>>
>> Use named imports to pick which write you want.
>
> It does seem a little silly to have a name clash with such a 
> commonly used function. Would it not be better to rename 
> std.file.write to something like writeFile and deprecate the 
> current name?

Yes, I think it would be worthwhile.
Especially that we will allow importing all of Phobos at once in 
2.079:


https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html#std-experimental-scripting



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