Re: Conflict between std.file write() and std.stdio write()

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 02:57:50 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:

On 10/3/13, Craig Dillabaugh <cdill...@cg.scs.carleton.ca> wrote:

void main( string[] args ) {
    string str = "Hello";
    write( "file.txt", str );

    string hello_file = readText("file.txt");

    writeln( hello_file );
}

You can also disambiguate by preferring one symbol over another with an alias:

alias write = std.file.write;

void main( string[] args ) {
    string str = "Hello";
    write( "file.txt", str );
}

You can also put the alias inside the function.

Thanks.

It seems that std.file should include a writeText() function for
the sake of consistency that is the above alias.  When you come
across readText() in the documentation you sort of expect that
such a function would exist, and then you spot write() below it,
and think hey that does what I need.  Then you hit upon the
syntax error if you are also using std.stdio (which is a very
commonly used module).

Adding writeText() doesn't really add much to the library, but
having to jump through hoops (as minor as they may be) to perform
such a simple op is a bit of a pain for people new to the
language.

Craig