Just because it's a slow Thursday on this forum

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 11 13:44:56 PST 2016


On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 21:38:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 03:38:42PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 02/11/2016 11:22 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> >[...]
>> 
>> My understanding is that's the whole point of the "dump" 
>> function being discussed. Unless I misunderstood?
>
> IMO `dump` is worthwhile but `print` seems little more than an 
> alias for `writefln`. I can't find enough justification to 
> warrant `print`. (Next thing you know, newbies will be asking 
> why there's both `print` and `write` that do the same thing 
> except different.)
>
>
> T

yeah, dump is really useful, print is a bit marginal.


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