Why does readln include the line terminator?

[Christopher Wright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Readln returns a string which contains the line terminator.
> 
> Is there a grand reason for this?
> 
> 
> Currently there are a few drawbacks with this. The naive user doesn't 
> expect it, and the seasoned user has to keep stripping it. And then he 
> has to search the docs (or get hold of other OSs) to determine what 
> terminator to expect on other systems.
> 
> And it can't really be a speed optimization either, because to do 
> anything useful with a string, you have to strip the terminator anyway 
> at some point.

By default, tango does not exhibit this behavior. If you wish, you can 
include newlines:

auto str = Cin.copyln; // no newline in str
auto str2 = Cin.copyln(true); // has system-dependent newline