printf and global namespace

[Anders F Björklund]

Mik wrote:

> Does printf really need to be in the global namespace anymore?

No, but Walter likes it while debugging so it stays in there...

> Now that writef
> is  fully developed, it seems obsolete.  I would say that using printf in a
> newer D program is bad style, since writef is much safer and neater.  It also
> gives new programmers the wrong idea.  Often they'll try to printf dynamic
> character arrays with a "%s", which surprisingly works most of the time, but
> fails whenever the string has no null terminators.
> 
> The only disadvantage to this would be breaking some older programs, but they
> could be fixed by just adding an import std.c.stdio .  I say that all of the old
> C stdio functions should get out of the global namespace, and back into their
> module where they belong.

I agree completely.

The only thing missing from "writef" is a fully implemented "readf",
or perhaps a "write" version that works without the format characters.

But printf must die!
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/bugs/5838.html

--anders