On 04/09/2012 07:22 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
I think most mentions of printf should just be removed from the dpl docs except maybe a few special places. People (or rather C++ refugees) seem to expect D to be a syntax sugared version of C++, but this myth has to be busted.
I don't think that's true, or at least I didn't think of D like that. It becomes pretty clear after reading the introduction that D does not try to emulate C++, let alone be compatible to C(++).
Nevertheless, because the syntax and terminology are quite similar, people expect stuff to have the same names. That's why I expected the standard printing function to be named `printf` and this attempt failed miserably, without any guidance from the compiler/stdlib/whatever.
