Formal Review of std.process

Jesse Phillips Jesse.K.Phillips+D at gmail.com
Sat Apr 6 11:18:22 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 6 April 2013 at 09:13:11 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad 
wrote:
> I wonder if we should change the name of Config.gui to 
> Config.noConsole.  It corresponds to the CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag 
> in the Windows API, for which the documentation says:
>
> "The process is a console application that is being run without 
> a console window. Therefore, the console handle for the 
> application is not set. This flag is ignored if the application 
> is not a console application [...]"
>
> I know some people don't like negative flags, but in this case 
> it seems more precise.  It doesn't create a GUI, it prevents 
> the creation of a console.
>
> Lars

I think noConsole or suppressConsole is acceptable, with 
preference to the latter. It seems to me gui is very 
mis-representative of what it is.


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