Pause Self, Resume on Event

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
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> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:g5ocsa$2v3b$2 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>>> "dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>>>>> news:g5o4g7$2f5i$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> On another note, anyone have any idea when/if Tango for D2, and 
>>>>>> Tangobos for Tango
>>>>>> for D2, will be available?  There are things I like and dislike about 
>>>>>> both Tango
>>>>>> and Phobos, and I really wish I could mix and match modules from them 
>>>>>> without
>>>>>> giving up my D2 features.  For example, I like Phobos's much simpler 
>>>>>> IO API, less
>>>>>> "OO everywhere" look and feel and "simple operations should be 
>>>>>> simple" mentality,
>>>>> Why does everyone say that Tango is "OO everywhere"?  There are free 
>>>>> functions (or static functions) that correspond to most free functions 
>>>>> in Phobos.  Please, please give me some examples of what you believe 
>>>>> to be "OO everywhere."
>>>>
>>>> One example: there are no stand-alone writefln/writef or readfln/readf 
>>>> functions in Tango.
>>>
>>> --! I mean ------ come on.  You call a method of a statically allocated 
>>> object.  As if that's really different?
>>>
>>
>> I have detailed in enhancement reports posted to the Tango tracker why it 
>> makes a difference, so I'm not going to repeat myself here.
>
> Not meaning to sound too stand-offish there.  Actually, I don't totally 
> recall what the problems I had with it were, and I don't have time to go 
> look it up now.

I believe the main functional complaint (not style-based) is that you cannot 
alias it.

-Steve