Why is the identifier "printf" known by the frontend?
Anders F Björklund
afb at algonet.se
Fri Oct 27 07:21:14 PDT 2006
Walter Bright wrote:
>> What is the reason for that? "import std.stdio" is not a real
>> difficult thing to type.
>
> Because I find it verrryy handy in writing minimal test cases. writefln,
> in order to work, requires much of D and Phobos to be working properly.
> printf, being part of the C library, doesn't require any of Phobos and
> very little of D to work, so it's handy when things are broken.
But the "import std.c.stdio;" isn't so very hard to type either ?
It's not so much about the usage of good ole printf, as it is about
the placement of printf in the "object.d" file. But you knew that...
--anders
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