little thing - D and phobos naming conventions

[Kyle Furlong]

Chad J wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> 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? ;)
> 
> We shouldn't even need that to get some kind of readln() function.  Make 
> it simple, it shouldn't need arguments (overload though for the fancy 
> stuff) just read a line from the console.
> 
> Later on if we want fromString, so we can do more fancy formatted input 
> and stuff, ok, but for now I am kinda dissappointed with the /complete/ 
> lack of console input function in phobos (disregarding std.c, because 
> that's c not d and a pain to use IMO).
> 
> I do miss a cheap/easy way to grab input like in C# w/ Console.ReadLine().

You should look at Ares + Mango. IO is very well implemented.