eliminate writeln et comp?

[Jason House]

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?
> 
> 
> Andrei

A lot of people have enjoyed the simplicity of using Phobos and it'd be a shame to ruin that.  writeln is extremely common, especially with gdb support broken ;)