I seem to be able to crash writefln

[Andrew Wiley]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 March 2011 23:15:13 Andrew Wiley wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Joel Christensen <joelcnz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This is on Windows 7. Using a def file to stop the terminal window coming
>> > up.
>> >
>> > win.def
>> > EXETYPE NT
>> > SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS
>> >
>> > bug.d
>> > import std.stdio;
>> > import std.string;
>> >
>> > void main() {
>> >        auto f = File( "z.txt", "w" );
>> >        scope( exit )
>> >                f.close;
>> >        string foo = "bar";
>> >        foreach( n; 0 .. 10 ) {
>> >                writefln( "%s", foo );
>> >                f.write( format( "count duck-u-lar: %s\n", n ) );
>> >        }
>> > }
>> >
>> > output (from in z.txt):
>> > count duck-u-lar: 0
>>
>> My understanding is that the "0..10" isn't actually a range notation,
>> and you need to use iota(0, 10). I may be wrong, but if I'm right,
>> hopefully someone can explain why this syntax works?
>> I remember there being a discussion about this recently; I'll see if I
>> can find it.
>
> 0..10 works with foreach. It's specific to foreach. iota also works, because it
> produces a range rather being built in to the language. As such, iota works in
> places _other_ than foreach. But 0..10 works just fine in foreach. It definitely
> pre-dates iota.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

Ah, then I guess I just need to learn me some D. Sorry for the noise.