little thing - D and phobos naming conventions

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Fri Oct 27 07:16:51 PDT 2006


Frits van Bommel wrote:

> This has been discussed before. IIRC, the rationale was 'stdio' refers 
> to the standard input/output provided by the operating system (i.e. 
> console i/o, by default).
> Though std.stdio also seems to contain FILE* i/o, so maybe the name 
> isn't _entirely_ appropriate.

And it's even more funny as stdio doesn't contain any "input"...

But I guess that "std.stdo" would have sounded more strange :-)

--anders



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