Writing stdin.byLine(KeepTerminator.yes) is quite awkward. Why this long name and not something shorter like KeepEOL?

BTW on Python the default is to *not* strip the newlines. Is there a reason the opposite is true here?

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Shriramana Sharma, Penguin #395953

Am Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:08:07 +0530
schrieb Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa_dont_spam_me@gmail.com>:

> Writing stdin.byLine(KeepTerminator.yes) is quite awkward. Why this long name and not something shorter like KeepEOL?

Because enums work that way in D: <enum name>.<member name> and probably because someone found that we had too many too short names in Phobos already.

> BTW on Python the default is to *not* strip the newlines. Is there a reason the opposite is true here?

I assume, that's because typically you are not interested in the control characters between the lines. They mostly just get in the way and the last line may or may not have a line-break.

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Marco

On 10/20/2015 03:38 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Writing stdin.byLine(KeepTerminator.yes) is quite awkward. Why this long
> name and not something shorter like KeepEOL?

It is what it is. Write it and move on.

> BTW on Python the default is to *not* strip the newlines. Is there a reason
> the opposite is true here?

I recall at the time I defined the function, everyone in this forum wanted the other way around.


Andrei

On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 10:10:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 03:38 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>> Writing stdin.byLine(KeepTerminator.yes) is quite awkward. Why this long
>> name and not something shorter like KeepEOL?
>
> It is what it is. Write it and move on.

Or if you really care about those keystrokes:

enum KeepEOL = KeepTerminator.yes;