Sorry I havent gotten to use D that much , stretched on time like everyone here.

I see this in stream.d
---------------------

File stdin, stdout, stderr;

version (Win32)
{
    // API imports
    private extern(Windows)
    {
     private import windows;
     HANDLE GetStdHandle(DWORD);
    }

    static this()
    {
     // open standard I/O devices
     stdin = new File(GetStdHandle(-10), FileMode.In);
     stdout = new File(GetStdHandle(-11), FileMode.Out);
     stderr = new File(GetStdHandle(-12), FileMode.Out);
    }
}

and its outside of any class, is this a module initalizer ?  Would I have to
put this in a version statement or how could I use this in my own project
( i mean the seemingly anonymous static this() ) ?

Thanks,
Charles

Spoke to soon sorry, at the bottom here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/module.html

Doh!
"Charles Sanders" <sanders-consulting@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Sorry I havent gotten to use D that much , stretched on time like everyone here.
>
> I see this in stream.d
> ---------------------
>
> File stdin, stdout, stderr;
>
> version (Win32)
> {
>     // API imports
>     private extern(Windows)
>     {
>      private import windows;
>      HANDLE GetStdHandle(DWORD);
>     }
>
>     static this()
>     {
>      // open standard I/O devices
>      stdin = new File(GetStdHandle(-10), FileMode.In);
>      stdout = new File(GetStdHandle(-11), FileMode.Out);
>      stderr = new File(GetStdHandle(-12), FileMode.Out);
>     }
> }
>
> and its outside of any class, is this a module initalizer ?  Would I have
to
> put this in a version statement or how could I use this in my own project
> ( i mean the seemingly anonymous static this() ) ?
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
>