Why is stdio ... stdio?

[Neia Neutuladh]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:03:36 +0000, Chris Katko wrote:
> Simple curious question.
> 
> Why isn't :
> 
> import std.stdio;
> 
> instead:
> 
> import std.io;

IO includes things like memory mapping, sockets, listing files, named 
pipes, that sort of thing.

Standard IO includes only reading and writing to files and the console.

> (Also, while we're at it. Why doesn't this form have code highlighting?
> It would much improve readibility. Doesn't that seem almost essential
> for a programming forum?)

It's not a forum. It's a newsgroup that happens to have a web interface. 
Newsgroups are text-only. So bbcode is out, html is out, but interpreting 
markdown might be reasonable. But nobody's done that work.