So, to print or not to print?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Apr 26 08:53:32 PDT 2016


On 04/26/2016 09:50 AM, cym13 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 12:46:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 04/26/2016 04:50 AM, ixid wrote:
>>> Please find an example of a newcomer who would be confused by print.
>>> This is an objectionable argument because none of the people making it
>>> are newcomers, you're using an entirely theoretical newcomer as your
>>> argument, and seem to think 'print(a, b, c);' is going to confuse people
>>> more than 'writefln("%s %s %s", a, b, c);' which is ridiculous.
>>
>> Let me also add that the very request came from a former newcomer. --
>> Andrei
>
> Well except maybe for you and Walter I think we're all former newcomers.

Good point but you know I mean "recently former" :o). -- Andrei


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