"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 1/23/12 3:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> >>> 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.
