stdio line-streaming revisited

[jcc7]

== Quote from kris (foo at bar.com)'s article
> 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?)

I think this is what you're looking for:
http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=31264
or
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=31264

It's part of a much larger discussion:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/31069.html#N31264

(I couldn't find where anyone vowed to leave the newsgroup forever, but I suppose
that does happen from time to time.)

jcc7