"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:35:35AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What do you think?
>
> Eeek. That's too much typing for a trivial, common operation.
>
> I wouldn't mind writefln being implemented as a macro that is turned to
> fwritefln(stdout, ...)
>
> But, I'd be fairly annoyed having to write the extra seven characters each
> time if the short version wasn't there.
>
That's how tango and C# do it.
Stdout.formatln("Hello"); // Tango
Console.WriteLine("Hello"); // C#
My preference has always been for something shorter, but the current
tango/C# ways have never really bothered me. You get used to it pretty
quick.
