eliminate writeln et comp?

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Tue Mar 17 08:56:58 PDT 2009


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");

But then stdout is still global :-)  However, I do think an "fwritef" 
routine would be good to have--I tend to write to stderr as often as stdout.



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