Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jason House wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> > It is not related to the size or speed of the code, as Sean was
>> > questioning, but in the use. The best comparison I can think of is that
>> > it is like going from C to Java. (I'm not saying Tango is like java)
>> > The phobos library is very procedural, you you import your module and
>> > call your functions. Tango is Object based, import, create object/call
>> > object to do something for you. There is a sense of simplicity when you
>> > don't use objects. That is frankly one of the reasons I have not moved
>> > to Tango yet.
>> 
>> I know there are a few places in Tango where an additional line may be
>> needed (and many where you'll need quite a few less), but without exact
>> examples of what people think is a problem, it is hard to make qualified
>> decisions on where to make improvements.
> 
> Maybe I'm misusing the library, but I know I've had to create formatting
> objects (print!(char)?), even for common cases.

There is a global Layout instance in tango.text.convert.Format that defaults
to char -

Format.layout ("{0}", "first arg");

or if you already has imported Stdout

Stdout.layout (...);

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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