little thing - D and phobos naming conventions

Frits van Bommel fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Fri Oct 27 10:42:56 PDT 2006


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 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"...

Yeah, that too :).

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

Well, at least it leaves room for expansion :).

What do you think, should Object get a method 'fromString' or something 
so we can add something like readf(ln) to std.stdio? ;)



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