Why std.stdio and not std.io ?

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:42:25 +0200, Nils Hensel wrote:

> Derek Parnell schrieb:
>> "std.stdio" is the Standard I/O module in the "std" package. It allows for
>> such things as "std.extio" which might be an Extended I/O module but still
>> in the "std" package. In other words "stdio" describes an I/O module as
>> 'standard' and "std." describes a package as 'standard'.
> 
> Following that logic std.math should be called std.stdmath because it 
> might get extended by std.extmath?
> Why don't just leave out the prefix for standard modules?
> 

Totally agree - but who has ever accused Walter of being 100% logical ;-)

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Derek
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10/05/2006 5:22:33 PM