Why std.stdio and not std.io ?

[Chad J]

Lucas Goss wrote:
> 
> Ok that explains std.cstream, but isn't std.ctype a translation of 
> ctype.h? Well I guess it doesn't use any C library, but it's essentially 
> a copy ctype.h. The C libraries just seem to clutter up the niceness of 
> D, and make it not so appealing to me. I can see the usefulness of 
> having them to prototype functions until they can be redone later, but 
> using the same naming just seems odd and makes the language feel 
> outdated and hard to read. It also scares me a little because I'm sure 
> someone will bring up the case that the naming can't be changed in the 
> future because of backward compatibility. Makes me sad...
> 
> Lucas

I agree here.  Leave the old C naming convention to std.c.* .  For all 
of the D functions, use more descriptive/intuitive and consistant names. 
  I hope the other major libraries (Ares, Mango) will take this to heart 
as well.  I noticed "atoi" in Mango.  atoi makes sense if you come from 
a C background, otherwise you'd have no idea what it does until you read 
the description.