On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:46:37 +0300, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:35:35AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
What do you think?
Eeek. That's too much typing for a trivial, common operation.
I wouldn't mind writefln being implemented as a macro that is turned to
fwritefln(stdout, ...)
But, I'd be fairly annoyed having to write the extra seven characters
each
time if the short version wasn't there.
That's how tango and C# do it.
Stdout.formatln("Hello"); // Tango
Console.WriteLine("Hello"); // C#
My preference has always been for something shorter, but the current
tango/C# ways have never really bothered me. You get used to it pretty
quick.
That's not a very frequent operation. In most cases you should use
Cout("Hello"); instead. An ideal design solution, imo (fast, short and clear).
Back on topic, in most cases I use:
debug writefln("hello");
because I have no console in release version (and it throws when there is no
stdout, look in the bugzilla for a bug report). It is already long enough, so I
wouldn't like it to be even longer:
debug stdio.writefln("hello");
My 0.02 rubles.
