stdio line-streaming revisited
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)
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Thu Mar 29 14:39:23 PDT 2007
kris wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> After a summary read I saw this:
>>
>> classRef.method1().method2().method3();
>>
>> In this case, indeed the three methods are evaluated in sequence. It
>> would be, however, a mistake to infer from that that the code:
>>
>> Cout("Hello, ")(Cin.get);
>>
>> guaranteedly reads the console before having printed "Hello, ". It
>> doesn't.
>
> Nobody claimed that it "guaranteedly" (whatever that means) does in the
> general case, so let's please move on?
>
> The only thing asserted is that call-chaining is evaluated in
> left-to-right order. I think we can safely put that back to bed again
You wrote this:
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There used to be a tango/example like this variation:
import tango.io.Console;
void main()
{
Cout ("Please enter your name: ").flush;
Cout ("Hello, ") (Cin.get);
}
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The code is incorrect. Point blank. Right?
Andrei
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