eliminate writeln et comp?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 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?

Keep writefln.  You're only going to be using it when (1) you're doing
debugging, when you want it short, and (2) you're writing a simple
console program.  There's always dout.writefln when you need more
power.