On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 12:38:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 08:50:23 ixid via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
and seem to think
'print(a, b, c);' is going to confuse people more than
'writefln("%s %s %s", a, b, c);' which is ridiculous.
Honestly, I think that writefln is way clearer than print.
Certainly, if you're familiar with printf, it's pretty obvious
what writefln does with the possible confusion over whether it
prints a newline or not (and the ln in the name is there to
tell you that), whereas it's not at all obvious what print is
going to do without looking at the docs.
We could always use C++ streams! They are perfectly clear what
they're doing, right?
stdout << a << " " << b << " " << c << endl;
Seriously, a formatting line may only be confusing at first, but
it's something you need to learn at some point. I don't ever want
to rely on something as ugly as streams. C had printf; which was
print, with an f! and that was good enough for everything! (I
feel like I'm quoting Garfield now)
Not that long ago when I was getting into D, I used printf more,
then when I memorized writeln I used it a lot more. It's really
not that bad. More people should sit down and read the damn
documentation (mind you I've read about half of it, and I need to
start over now since it's been so long).
