There was a newsgroup post on this subject the beginning of this week and it didn't get much feedback, other than a couple "sounds good to me"

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=115470

I offered to clean up my implementation. There are some things I need to experiment with and choose what would be best. And most importantly I need to find out if it would be considered a good addition to Phobos. The below code is an example of the functions and their usage:

import std.interact;

void main() {
    auto age = userInput!int("Please Enter you age");

    if(userInput!bool("Do you want to continue?"))
    {
        auto outputFolder = pathLocation("Where you do want to place
the output?");
        auto color = menu!string("What color would you like to use?",
["Blue", "Green"]);
    }

    auto num = require!(int, "a > 0 && a <= 10")("Enter a number from 1 to 10");
}

Opinions?

-- 
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ? - George Bernard Shaw

There was a newsgroup post on this subject the beginning of this month and it didn't get much feedback, other than a couple "sounds good to me"

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=115470

I offered to clean up my implementation. There are some things I need to experiment with and choose what would be best. And most importantly I need to find out if it would be considered a good addition to Phobos. The below code is an example of the functions and their usage:

import std.interact;

void main() {
? ?auto age = userInput!int("Please Enter you age");

? ?if(userInput!bool("Do you want to continue?"))
? ?{
? ? ? ?auto outputFolder = pathLocation("Where you do want to place
the output?");
? ? ? ?auto color = menu!string("What color would you like to use?",
["Blue", "Green"]);
? ?}

? ?auto num = require!(int, "a > 0 && a <= 10")("Enter a number from 1 to 10");
}

Opinions?


-- 
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ? - George Bernard Shaw
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I think that's useful functionality, but it doesn't strike me as an API belonging to the standard library.

Andrei

On 09/11/2010 04:41 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> There was a newsgroup post on this subject the beginning of this month and it didn't get much feedback, other than a couple "sounds good to me"
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=115470
>
> I offered to clean up my implementation. There are some things I need to experiment with and choose what would be best. And most importantly I need to find out if it would be considered a good addition to Phobos. The below code is an example of the functions and their usage:
>
> import std.interact;
>
> void main() {
>     auto age = userInput!int("Please Enter you age");
>
>     if(userInput!bool("Do you want to continue?"))
>     {
>         auto outputFolder = pathLocation("Where you do want to place
> the output?");
>         auto color = menu!string("What color would you like to use?",
> ["Blue", "Green"]);
>     }
>
>     auto num = require!(int, "a>  0&&  a<= 10")("Enter a number from 1 to 10");
> }
>
> Opinions?
>
>
>
>
>
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> phobos mailing list
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Thank you for the response and I can understand leaving it out of Phobos. I'd like to claim that it is similar in manner to getopt, but there is actually a standard for passing parameters to a program so...

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>wrote:

> I think that's useful functionality, but it doesn't strike me as an API belonging to the standard library.
>
> Andrei
>
>
> On 09/11/2010 04:41 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>
>> There was a newsgroup post on this subject the beginning of this month and it didn't get much feedback, other than a couple "sounds good to me"
>>
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=115470
>>
>> I offered to clean up my implementation. There are some things I need to experiment with and choose what would be best. And most importantly I need to find out if it would be considered a good addition to Phobos. The below code is an example of the functions and their usage:
>>
>> import std.interact;
>>
>> void main() {
>>    auto age = userInput!int("Please Enter you age");
>>
>>    if(userInput!bool("Do you want to continue?"))
>>    {
>>        auto outputFolder = pathLocation("Where you do want to place
>> the output?");
>>        auto color = menu!string("What color would you like to use?",
>> ["Blue", "Green"]);
>>    }
>>
>>    auto num = require!(int, "a>  0&&  a<= 10")("Enter a number from 1 to
>> 10");
>> }
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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