On Monday, April 7, 2014 2:41:28 PM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote:

> readline(io::IO, prompt::String) = ....default thing in Base....
>

Hmm, now I remember the problem.  It seems like this would have to be 
readline(read::IO, write::IO, prompt::String) since different streams are 
used for reading and writing.  And this is kind of ugly, considering that 
you only ever want prompted input from STDIN/STDOUT as far as I can tell.

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