• Shriramana Sharma (6/6) Oct 20 2015 Writing stdin.byLine(KeepTerminator.yes) is quite awkward. Why this long...
• Marco Leise (10/14) Oct 20 2015 Because enums work that way in D: .
• Andrei Alexandrescu (5/9) Oct 20 2015 I recall at the time I defined the function, everyone in this forum
• John Colvin (4/9) Oct 20 2015 Or if you really care about those keystrokes:

Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa_dont_spam_me gmail.com> writes:

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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Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:

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.

-- 
Marco

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

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

John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

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;