>"spir" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:55:10 +0100
>Pelle Månsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > But the key point is that language features like D's toString are far
>> > to be used only for _direct_ string output. They are extremely useful
>> > for numerous tasks of string manipulation and processing, most of which
>> > again for programmer's own use. Sometimes, at the end of process chain
>> > comes string otuput -- but indirectly.
>>
>> With this, it doesn't need to be. Instead of writing another function
>> for non-debuglike string output, just use writeTo.
>
>No, just use toString. As said above, I don't want to writeTo, I want the
>string; and be free to do whatever I want to with it. Being only able to
>write is... (rather censure).
If you just want the string, then just use to!string(x), or format("%s", x),
or anything else that implicity converts types to strings. I don't
understand what the problem is.
