D Conference Tango Phobos

[Bill Baxter]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 9/14/07, simax <simax at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> I haven't used Tango (yet?). But I don't think I'll try it if it means
> I'll have to stop using Phobos. I had originally assumed it was an
> add-on, not a replacement. Is that wrong? Anyway, if it's a
> replacement, that's definitely a disincentive.

Yep, that's what all the hubub is about.

> After all - why rewrite writefln()? It's already there. (...as in, in Phobos).

Better support for localization for one.  Tango's routines let you 
change the order of arguments in the format string, since the grammars 
of different languages don't always use the same word order.  You can 
say "{1} is {2}" in Tango, in contrast to "%s is %s" of writefln.

But it's definitely an "if it ain't broke..." kind of situation.  For 
most folks writefln does what they need with a minimum of fuss.  Heck, 
Walter seems to still use printf even.

--bb