stdout - autoflushing

[Ali Çehreli]

On 12/03/2013 12:36 PM, Benji wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 19:33:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 12/03/2013 09:12 AM, Benji wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> in order to have correctly displayed output (before reading something
>>> from stdin),
>>> I must call stdout.flush().
>>
>> I am surprised that you need that. What is your platform?
>>
>> Normally, stdin and stdout are "tied". Reading from stdin flushes
>> stdout automatically.
>>
>> Ali
>
> I am using Xubuntu, 64bit, and GDC as compiler

I've known this to be the case for cin and cout of C++. So, I've been 
assuming that to be universally true. Apparently not for C and D 
behavior is based on C. I wish std.stdio gave us C++'s 'tie'.

Ali

P.S. This makes some of the examples at ddili.org incorrect as I never 
call flush. :-/