"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:jfk1r6$2a5j$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 1/23/12 3:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright"<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message >> news:jfj0ao$3q9$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> Another way of looking at it is Phobos should provide snap-together >>> building blocks, not trivial combinations of them. >> >> So whenever there's trivia to be done, it should be cluttering up the >> *user's* code instead? > > In this case I think it's reasonable to have the user write > read(to!string(filename)). It's simple composition. >
The problem is it's unnecessary composition. But I guess I'm not getting anywhere here.
