On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tyler Littlefield <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can't just assume the screen shouldn't be cleared. It's an asumption that
> really shouldn't be made--there may be a very valid reason why the OP wanted
> it clear.
> Without knowing that, you can't safely assume that it shouldn't be done
> because someone said they wouldn't use a program if it clears the screen.
I think it's bad form and against convention to automatically clear a
console screen without warning the user. As I noted earlier, on Unix
consoles even full screen console apps don't clear the screen. Even
the CygWin console screen behaves in this manner (it essentially works
like a Unix terminal). I think the programmer *shouldn't* assume it's
OK to clear the screen.
-- Brett
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