eliminate writeln et comp?

[Max Samukha]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:56:58 -0700, Sean Kelly
<sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:

>Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hey all y'all,
>> 
>> 
>> Here's another nice bicycle shed discussion. During the recent 
>> discussion about globals being harmful, Walter told me something that 
>> made me think. I said, hey, there are things that are global - look at 
>> stdout. He said, well, that's a bad thing. He then argued that it would 
>> be better and cleaner to write:
>> 
>> stdout.writeln("Hello, world");
>
>But then stdout is still global :-)  However, I do think an "fwritef" 
>routine would be good to have--I tend to write to stderr as often as stdout.

writef recognizes if its first parameter is a stream. you can already
use writef(stderr, ...)