eliminate writeln et comp?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-03-17 20:26:16 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> Interesting. Should I do the same in phobos?
> 
> stdout("wyda");
> 
> I'd like that particularly because write() is too common a name to 
> place at namespace level for my taste. So then we'd have:
> 
> stdout("wyda"); // no newline
> stdout("wyda\n"); // newline but no flushing on binary stream
> stdout("wyda", newline); // write'n'flush
> stdout.writeln("wyda"); // same
> 
> If we go that route I'll even drop writeln and rely on passing newline. 
> For formatting there'd be stdout.format and stdout.formatln or 
> something.

Seems nice. Can this work symmetrically for stdin?

	int i;
	stdin(i); // reads an integer and place it in i.

That would make things interesting, as with some streams you could use 
the same code to serialize and unserialize a data structures.

	stream(x, y, z); // either write or read the values depending on the stream.

This reminds me of boost serialization which use a similar trick 
allowing you to have a single function template to both serialize and 
unserialize a given data type.

But that probably couldn't work with the standard text stream types.

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