eliminate writeln et comp?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Hey all y'all,


Here's another nice bicycle shed discussion. During the recent 
discussion about globals being harmful, Walter told me something that 
made me think. I said, hey, there are things that are global - look at 
stdout. He said, well, that's a bad thing. He then argued that it would 
be better and cleaner to write:

stdout.writeln("Hello, world");

instead of the current:

writeln("Hello, world");

On one hand, I agree with Walter. On the other, I want to avoid the 
phenomenon of the all-too-long "Hello, world" example.

What do you think?


Andrei