So, to print or not to print?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3971
> 
> Walter and I were talking this morning that there should be a high 
> barrier of entry for one-liners in Phobos. The "print" function is 
> technically a one-liner (i.e. writefln with the appropriate format 
> string). On the other hand, it may be convivial enough to warrant 
> inclusion, and saves us from embarrassing things such as producing 
> meaningless output when numbers are printed together.
> 
> There's been a bit of churn in the PR comments regarding the utility of 
> "print", and discussion diverged into other functions such as "dump" 
> etc. Keeping it on topic: any strong cons and pros regarding the 
> function? I want to either merge or close the PR and move on.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei
> 

I closed the PR as too controversial. -- Andrei