Redundancy in std.stdio name

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Sat Aug 17 19:42:23 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 02:26:59 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> As a frustrated C++ user, I was sniffing around D for a decade. 
> Today, I started reading "The D Programming Language". The 
> first line of the first code example in this book:
>
> import std.stdio
>
> triggered my redundancy detector. Does it have to be std.stdio? 
> How about std.io?

std.stdio's upcoming replacement is called std.io.  std.stdio is 
called stdio because it's based on C's stdio.h.


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