Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.429.1331409266.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> [...]
>> writefln is still there with the same old functionality (which is
>> good, it *is* a good function). It's just that writeln has been added
>> and just happens to be better in every way for the majority of
>> use-cases.
> [...]
>
> Strange, I still find myself using writef/writefln very frequently.
> When you want formatting in your output, printf specs are just sooo
> convenient.  But perhaps it's just a symptom of my having just emerged
> from the C/C++ world.  :-)
>

They are nice, but I've found that in most of my cases, the non-formatted 
version is all I usually need. It's great though that the formatted ones are 
there for the cases where I do need them.