I seem to be able to crash writefln

[Ary Manzana]

On 3/10/11 4:40 AM, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> 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.

No, D needs to change, not you. Ah, consistency...