[Issue 4532] std.string.format, std.stream methods, etc. still use the old doFormat instead of formattedWrite

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4532



--- Comment #14 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2012-04-20 14:49:05 PDT ---
I've taken a look here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/231

Kenji Hara sasy:

>The same name with core.stdc.sprintf is very confusing. And std.string.format returns new string, but core.stdc.sprintf write the formatted string into specified buffer. The two behaviors are quite different.<


Andrei Alexandrescu says:

>There's no problem with core.stdc.sprintf bearing the same name as std.format.sprintf. Phobos has had such duplicate names for years without a problem.<


I agree that Phobos has some name clashes. But I don't agree it's a good thing.
It should be avoided if possible for newly added names.
And I agree the behavior of the new functions is different from the C
functions. So I agree with Kenji Hara, they should have different names.

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