My Bad

[Craig Black]

Oh OK.  Tango is now redeemed.

"kris" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message news:f75sn0$187s$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Craig Black wrote:
>> // Tango yuck
>> Stdout("x is ")(x).newline;
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> It not at all clear why some folks have latched onto the above syntax as 
> some kind of figurehead :)
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> This is Tango formatting:
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> # Stdout.formatln ("x is {}, y is {}, z is {}", x, y, z);
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> along with this variation for handling I18N argument indexing:
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> # Stdout.formatln ("x is {2}, y is {0}, z is {1}", y, z, x);
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> Yes, there are optional formatting specifiers within the {} also. It just 
> so happens that Tango /also/ supports non-formatted output using the same 
> entity:
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> # Stdout (x);
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> And, for those who just need to output some values quickly, sans 
> formatting, the same call handles more than one argument:
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> # Stdout (x, y, z);
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> Notice the lack of formatting text in the above? Instead it simply emits 
> ", " between the arguments, since that is how it is written in the call.
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> It just so happens that Stdout also returns itself, which can be used for 
> chaining purposes. Hence, you /can/ use it in the following manner:
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> Stdout (x) (y) (z);
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> Tango has an idiom of returning a chaining instance when there's nothing 
> much else of value to return. The above is just a continuation of that 
> general pattern, and does not imply some kind of usage requirement.
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> I hope this helps to clarify somewhat?
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