On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:16 AM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu: >> The name and original implementation of writefln are Walter's and >> predate my tenure with D. I just defined write() and writeln(). > > write/writeln are very useful to avoid the silly bugs caused by the possible > of a % inside the first string given to writefln. But write/writeln have > still a quite large amount of holes/limits (*) that deserve (or must, I'd > say) to be filled/fixed. I have named put/putr (final "r" stands for return) > my pair of fixed ones (fixed, but not perfect, they have few bug still), a > shorter name to type, and you can't write writenl by mistake as I've done for > a couple months.
Heh heh. I'd say close to half of my failed compiles are due to a "writelfn" I typed somewhere. I really need to find some kind of auto-correct package for emacs. > (*) If you want I can list few pages of such problems/limits/bugs. I have not > done this already because not a single person here has shown some interest in > fixing the writef/writefln/write/writeln functions so far. Apparently Andrei was, since he took the trouble to re-write the D1 versions. Are your improvements to the D1 version or the D2 templatized version? --bb
