eliminate writeln et comp?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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?

There must be something I'm missing here. Either writeln is using a 
global "stdout" which you can't see in it's interface, or you are using 
that global "stdout" yourself and invoking writeln on it. There's still 
a global around. Nothing solved.