On Friday, 12 May 2017 at 13:50:50 UTC, ixid wrote:
I think the word dump would be too confusing for users based on
the history of the term in C. It should be
writeFormattedVariableLn. /sarcasm.
Just parodying the frankly ridiculous response to 'print'.
In all seriousness, debugPrint or something similar might be a
more informative name.
Otherwise, I like the functionality. I've written my own version
of dump before in a couple projects and it'd be nice to have it
in Phobos. Also as Andrea said, does `debug` obviate the need for
dump to be @nogc nothrow @safe? Does the following work?
void test(int x) @nogc nothrow @safe pure
{
debug dump!x();
}
As for it being pure, I see no reason why or how dump can be pure.
