Add Modern class with utility methods for readln, writeln and conversions #120912
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I propose introducing short built-in aliases for common Console methods, such as:
writeln() → Console.WriteLine()
readln() → Console.ReadLine()
These would serve as convenience methods to improve code brevity, especially in top-level statements, quick utilities, teaching scenarios, or competitive programming.
Motivation
Typing Console.WriteLine and Console.ReadLine repeatedly is verbose, especially for short programs, demos, scripting, introductory programming, and REPL-like usage.
Other languages (Pascal's writeln, Kotlin’s println, Python’s input, etc.) provide concise ways to do this. C# could benefit from similar shorthand without changing semantics or removing the existing methods.
Example:
Instead of: