Ellery Newcomer wrote:
On 03/09/2010 05:53 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:52:25 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Printing values with spaces between them is entirely fine for e.g. all
numbers.
You know what, you are right. Why should phobos cater to people wanting
to print something as arcane as a string array, or a multi-dimensional
array. People have no business using such constructs, they should be
punished by having to write their own routines.
It's all one-dimensional arrays of numbers for me from now on!
-Steve
and formatted in hex
In wake of printing multi-dimensional arrays, I agree that start and end
delimiters should be present by default. If delimiters are present, it
only makes sense to make the array look like a D array, so the ", "
becomes an acceptable proposition.
I'm unsure about strings - should "to" go all gung-ho on quoting and
escaping quotes etc.? That's a bit odd. Consider:
auto str = to!string("hello world");
I'd expect the call to be an identity application that makes str equal
to "hello world". So far so good. Then say I convert with "to" an array
of strings to a string:
auto str2 = to!string(["hello world"]);
Now str2 is "\"hello world\"", i.e. has an extra pair of quotes. So "to"
applied to an array does not always use "to" applied to each element of
the array - it has a completely different behavior. I wonder whether
that's a desirable behavior.
(For the record, I agree that there are ambiguities if the quotes are
not added and escaped etc. I just wonder whether that should be part of
"to"s charter.)
Another thing that's unclear to me is whether writeln and "to" should be
defined such that
write(to!string(stuff))
and
writeln(stuff)
produce the same text. Currently that's the general plan, but I wonder
whether we should change the approach.
Andrei
