D Conference Tango Phobos

[Anders F Björklund]

Bill Baxter wrote:

> I think that may be one thing that is still lacking in Phobos.  You 
> can't *not* do formatted output.  I recall someone provided a patch to 
> add unformatted output routines, but AFAIK it was never applied.

It was called "writeln", and came as part of the "readf" addition...

See digitalmars.D/15627, digitalmars.D/19835 and digitalmars.D/21692

> It's a 
> good example of why Phobos will never be half the library Tango is. 
> Walter is the only one with write access, and he's too busy with 
> compiler things to have time to review and merge Phobos patches.  It's a 
> surefire recipe for Phobos going nowhere fast.

The same can be said for DMD... Fortunately both are open source ?

Patches to Phobos can go into GDC, just like compiler patches can.

--anders