Why is stdio ... stdio?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:03:36AM +0000, Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Simple curious question.
> 
> Why isn't :
> 
> import std.stdio;
> 
> instead:
> 
> import std.io;

The reason is that std.stdio is basically just a nice D wrapper with
syntactic sugar around the C library's stdio.h.  There has been a std.io
in the works, but unfortunately it hasn't quite materialized yet.  So
for now, we're stuck with std.stdio.


> (Also, while we're at it. Why doesn't this form have code
> highlighting? It would much improve readibility. Doesn't that seem
> almost essential for a programming forum?)
[...]

Because this "forum" isn't really a web forum, but just a web interface
to an NNTP server that also has a mailing list interface (I (mostly) use
the mailing list interface).  Haven't really felt a need for syntax
highlighting myself, though most opinions differ. :-D


T

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