• Karl Bochert (8/8) Jan 08 2002 Two questions:
• Walter (7/15) Jan 08 2002 Actually, D doesn't have a getch(). It just calls the C one directly. Ar...
• Pavel Minayev (10/17) Jan 08 2002 not match argument types ()'

Karl Bochert <kbochert ix.netcom.com> writes:

Two questions:
1) When I try to hold a dos box open with 'getch ();' I get the error
    message 'E"\dmd\src\phobos\stdio.d(142) getch function parameters do not
match argument types ()'
   I must be doing something stupid?.

2)) Is there any reason D can't have a getch() that does what it says, as
opposed to
'get_first_char_of_line()' ?   It can be done, and part of the rationale for D
is to
correct C's flaws.

Karl Bochert

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

Actually, D doesn't have a getch(). It just calls the C one directly. Are
you passing an argument to getch()?

"Karl Bochert" <kbochert ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1103_1010544653 bose...
 Two questions:
 1) When I try to hold a dos box open with 'getch ();' I get the error
     message 'E"\dmd\src\phobos\stdio.d(142) getch function parameters do

not match argument types ()'
    I must be doing something stupid?.

 2)) Is there any reason D can't have a getch() that does what it says, as

opposed to
 'get_first_char_of_line()' ?   It can be done, and part of the rationale

for D is to
 correct C's flaws.

 Karl Bochert

"Pavel Minayev" <evilone omen.ru> writes:

"Karl Bochert" <kbochert ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:1103_1010544653 bose...
 Two questions:
 1) When I try to hold a dos box open with 'getch ();' I get the error
     message 'E"\dmd\src\phobos\stdio.d(142) getch function parameters do

not match argument types ()'
    I must be doing something stupid?.

Open stdio.d. Do a searh-n-replace: "(void)" => "()". Now it should work.

 2)) Is there any reason D can't have a getch() that does what it says, as

opposed to
 'get_first_char_of_line()' ?   It can be done, and part of the rationale

for D is to
 correct C's flaws.

getch() is not a D function, but a C one. It's just one another advantage
of D that it links to C libraries and borrows quite a lot of functions
from there, giving us a common set to work with. The native D library is
just not fully implemented yet.