"H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message news:mailman.429.1331409266.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > [...] >> 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. > [...] > > Strange, I still find myself using writef/writefln very frequently. > When you want formatting in your output, printf specs are just sooo > convenient. But perhaps it's just a symptom of my having just emerged > from the C/C++ world. :-) >
They are nice, but I've found that in most of my cases, the non-formatted version is all I usually need. It's great though that the formatted ones are there for the cases where I do need them.