"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:jjg7s4$24p$2...@digitalmars.com... > On 3/9/2012 10:43 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright"<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message >>> I'm *still* regularly annoyed by the writefln => writeln change in D1 >>> to >>> D2, and I agreed to that change. Grrrr. >> >> Are you kidding me? I'm *thrilled* with how much of an improvement >> writeln >> is *every time I use it*. >> >> Seriously how the hell did writeln ever hurst *anyone*? We're bitching >> about >> trivialities here. > > I'm not complaining about the functionality improvement - I think that's > great. I'm talking about the name change. It's far and away the most > common thing I have to edit when moving code from D1 <=> D2. >
I still like the name better. Do we really need an alphabet soup appended to "write" just to spit out one string? It's really not a name change at all though: It's a new function. writefln is still there with the same old functionality (which is good, it *is* a good function). It's just that writeln has been added and just happens to be better in every way for the majority of use-cases.