A very basic blog about D

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 09:08:18 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> John Colvin, el  7 de July a las 22:39 me escribiste:
>> On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 20:08:19 UTC, Leandro Lucarella 
>> wrote:
>> >Andrei Alexandrescu, el  7 de July a las 09:06 me escribiste:
>> >>On 7/7/13 8:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> >>>Here's a conformant implementation for reference:
>> >>>http://www.scs.stanford.edu/histar/src/pkg/echo/echo.c
>> >>
>> >>Hmm, that's actually not so good, it doesn't ensure that I/O 
>> >>was
>> >>successful. Anyhow, here's a possibility:
>> >>
>> >>import std.stdout;
>> >>void main(string[] args)
>> >>{
>> >>    const appendNewline = args.length > 1 && args[1] == "-n";
>> >>    foreach (i, arg; args[appendNewline + 1 .. $])
>> >>    {
>> >>        if (i) write(' ');
>> >>        write(arg);
>> >>    }
>> >>    if (nl) writeln();
>> >>}
>> >>
>> >>But then I figured echo must do escape character processing, 
>> >>see
>> >>e.g. 
>> >>http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/minix/html/echo_8c-source.html.
>> >>With that the blog entry would become quite interesting.
>> >
>> >If you want the specification, here it is :)
>> >http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html
>> 
>> I prefer this one :p http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/echo-msg.html
>> 
>> From the opengroup spec:
>> "If the first operand is -n, or if any of the operands contain 
>> a
>> <backslash> character, the results are implementation-defined."
>> 
>> Ah...specifications...
>> 
>> 
>> I'm gonna stick with normal linux implementation, as described 
>> here:
>> http://linux.die.net/man/1/echo
>
> That's not Linux, that's GNU coreutils :)

Sue me :p    Strangely, it's in direct contradiction with the GNU 
coreutils documentation, as hosted on the GNU site.