stdio line-streaming revisited

[kris]

jcc7 wrote:
> == Quote from kris (foo at bar.com)'s article
> 
>>Frits van Bommel wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>What I'm trying to say here is basically this: you shouldn't rely on the
>>>order of evaluation of parameters. Not even if one of them happens to be
>>>used as 'this' for the method in question.
>>
>>Absolutely agree. Yet, without wishing to go off on a tangent, we're
>>talking about call-chaining and not parameter evaluation-order. These
>>are different things, and there was a painfully long thread on exactly
>>this subject a year or two ago.
>>Walter closed that one by stating call-chaining can only realistically
>>evaluate from left to right (or something to that effect) and that's
>>what D does.
>>I'm sure JCC could locate that thread in a heartbeat ... don't know > how he
> 
> does that, but he sure is effective at it :)
> 
> These days, I Usually just use Google and restrict it to www.digitalmars.com (such
> as the search box on the Digital Mars webpage does).
> 
> I can't seem to track down this one though. My technique works best when I
> actually remember the particular post or discussion (and it works really well when
> I remember that I myself posted in the discussion). And I don't really remember
> this discussion.
> 
> Do you happen to remember who Walter was replying to? That could be helpful. I
> can't seem to find the right keywords to find the particular topic. I tried
> various combinations of "newshound" (Walter's e-mail), "evaluation", "order",
> "operator", "operation", "call", "chain", "return", "function", etc. Also,
> sometimes it's helpful if I know when the discussion took place (Last month? Last
> year? 2005?). But this might just be a needle that remains hidden in the haystack.
> 
> Perhaps we can just talk Walter into putting this principle in the D Specification. ;)
> 
> jcc7

If I recall correctly, it started off as a complaint about the use of 
call-chaining in Mango, and resulted in someone leaving the NG for good 
(was his name manfred or something?)