reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 11 19:07:01 PDT 2013


On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:36:24 -0400, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> The best solution would be for writeln() to throw on use, and I think  
> it's fairly easy to implement: just flush once after using the file  
> descriptor for the first time, and throw if it fails.

This is a good idea.

I think you meant "just flush once after using the FILE * for the first  
time"

-Steve


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