On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:03:36 +0000, Chris Katko wrote: > Simple curious question. > > Why isn't : > > import std.stdio; > > instead: > > import std.io;
IO includes things like memory mapping, sockets, listing files, named pipes, that sort of thing. Standard IO includes only reading and writing to files and the console. > (Also, while we're at it. Why doesn't this form have code highlighting? > It would much improve readibility. Doesn't that seem almost essential > for a programming forum?) It's not a forum. It's a newsgroup that happens to have a web interface. Newsgroups are text-only. So bbcode is out, html is out, but interpreting markdown might be reasonable. But nobody's done that work.