eliminate writeln et comp?

Don nospam at nospam.com
Wed Mar 18 01:22:44 PDT 2009


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");
> 
> instead of the current:
> 
> writeln("Hello, world");
> 
> On one hand, I agree with Walter. On the other, I want to avoid the 
> phenomenon of the all-too-long "Hello, world" example.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Andrei

I have always thought of writefln as the flagship function of Phobos. 
It's now looking as though the connection between Phobos2 and Phobos1 is 
not really any stronger than between Tango1 and Phobos1.
(This is an observation, not intended to be critical in any way).



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