D Conference Tango Phobos

[TomD]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> Janice Caron wrote:
> > On 9/15/07, TomD <t_demmer_no_spam_ at web.de> wrote:
> >> What really worries me is the total absence of Walter in this discussion. I had another look at Tango and again came to the result I do not like it. It would really be a pity seeing Phobos going down the drain.
> > 
> > I had not looked at Tango before this discussion, but now that I have,
> > I have to say I don't like it either. It's not the functionality that
> > irks me, it's the /style/. I mean:
> > 
> > import tango.io.Stdout;
> > Stdout( i )( " = " )( s ).newline;
> 
> This is only one of about four styles for IO, and it's probably the 
> least commonly used these days.
Why is this then the style in http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/TutSimpleIO
? 
That's is deterring. If this is simple, I do not want to see the 
complicated stuff. 
Also, http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/ChapterIO
talks about a lot of complex stuff. How do I read a double from a stream, separated by white space, by comma, whatever?

Don't get me wrong, it's not that the Phobos docs are much better, but that is legacy libc that everyone (well, ) knows from growing up. The docs are not written n a way that mea me feel like I get things done quickly.

Ciao
Tom