On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 13:52:37 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> write exists in both, writeln exists only in std.stdio.
>
> Use named imports to pick which write you want.

It does seem a little silly to have a name clash with such a commonly used function. Would it not be better to rename std.file.write to something like writeFile and deprecate the current name?

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 16:55:10 UTC, ixid wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 13:52:37 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> write exists in both, writeln exists only in std.stdio.
>>
>> Use named imports to pick which write you want.
>
> It does seem a little silly to have a name clash with such a commonly used function. Would it not be better to rename std.file.write to something like writeFile and deprecate the current name?

Yes, I think it would be worthwhile.
Especially that we will allow importing all of Phobos at once in 2.079:


https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html#std-experimental-scripting