Why std.stdio and not std.io ?

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Tue May 9 08:07:31 PDT 2006


"Tom" <Tom_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:e3q9ir$2i7n$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Maybe it sounds as a stupid question but I still wonder why to mimic C 
> include
> name for standard input/output.

This has been discussed before ;)  Same goes for std.stdarg and std.stdint. 
It's probably from when the std modules didn't used to be in std, and were 
just "import stdio;", etc.

In any case, the runtime library needs an overhaul before 1.0, there's no 
doubt about that.. 





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