Why std.stdio and not std.io ?

[Stewart Gordon]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Tom" <Tom_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
> news:e3q9ir$2i7n$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Maybe it sounds as a stupid question but I still wonder why to mimic C 
>> include name for standard input/output.
> 
> This has been discussed before ;)  Same goes for std.stdarg and std.stdint. 

AIUI they couldn't have named it std.int, because int is a keyword.  But 
still, that doesn't mean there isn't a better name than stdint.

> It's probably from when the std modules didn't used to be in std, and were 
> just "import stdio;", etc.
<snip>

Was there any such time?  Either way, std.stdio didn't exist back then.

Actually, a possible explanation is that the two "std"s mean different 
things.

The first one refers to the D standard library that is Phobos.

The second refers to the standard input/output streams.

So std.stdio is the D standard library module for accessing the standard 
I/O.

Stewart.

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