It has always been traditional in Unix to treat the console input as just another "byte stream", just like a file is a byte stream. This has carried over into Windows. The console is represented by "standard input" which is a file handle. This is what allows you to redirect console output to a file, or (less often) pass the contents of a file as input to a process.
J. Merrill From: Tom <[email protected]> To: Neko intermediate language mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 05/18/2010 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Neko] Accepting user input from the console in both windows and linux Sent by: <[email protected]> Thanks. That worked. May I ask what the default input has to do with the File class? Regards, Tom 2010/5/17 Nicolas Cannasse <[email protected]> Tom a écrit : Hi there, I'm pretty new to Neko and am having trouble finding out how to receive input from the console in both windows and linux. I'm writing a server application which has to be able to receive commands through the console. Try reading s...@file_stdin() or calling s...@sys_getch() Nicolas -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org) -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
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