reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.net
Tue Jun 11 10:01:41 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 16:50:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 6/11/13 11:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> This code DOES fail:
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> writeln("hello");
>> std.stdio.stdout.flush();
>> return 0;
>> }
>
> Ah, I suspected so. (At a point in D's history writeln() did do 
> a flush; people wanted to eliminate it for efficiency reasons.)
>
> We could introduce a flush() with throw in std.stdiobase.

As in a module destructor?  Isn't it better to let the error pass 
silently rather than throwing an exception that can't be caught?


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