Maybe it sounds as a stupid question but I still wonder why to mimic C include name for standard input/output.

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>Maybe it sounds as a stupid question but I still wonder why to mimic C include name for standard input/output.
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>Regards,
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"Tom" <Tom_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:e3q9ir$2i7n$1@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. It's probably from when the std modules didn't used to be in std, and were just "import stdio;", etc.

In any case, the runtime library needs an overhaul before 1.0, there's no doubt about that..

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Tom" <Tom_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:e3q9ir$2i7n$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Maybe it sounds as a stupid question but I still wonder why to mimic C include name for standard input/output.
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> 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.
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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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"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e3qe2d$2p8r$1@digitaldaemon.com...

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

Yep, pre-0.75 there was no std package.  You'll notice in the changelog that 0.75 says "Changed to a new standard library package layout."  My first experience with D was with 0.74, and I remember there not being a std package.

> Actually, a possible explanation is that the two "std"s mean different things.
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> The first one refers to the D standard library that is Phobos.
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> The second refers to the standard input/output streams.
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> So std.stdio is the D standard library module for accessing the standard I/O.

I suppose that's a sane explanation.  :)