So, to print or not to print?

Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 27 08:56:36 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 04:48:30 UTC, xenon325 wrote:
> I guess it's too late, but from what I gathered from the 
> comments, main controversy is about the name but not the 
> utility (e.g. Adam's `substr` vs `substring` argument).

I don't think it has enough utility to be added at all, if it is 
defined as printing with spaces.

If it is defined as printing to be human readable, then I'd take 
it, even if the first iteration uses spaces. Then we can expand 
it to do stuff like pretty-print objects.


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