27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
3:26 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:48, Rustom Mody
Can someone explain what is happening here? *Main> getTwoChars ab ('a','b') *Main> getTwoChars a ('\n','a')
The code is doing exactly what it says. getTwoChars reads two characters --- *not* a line. So the next character waiting to be read is the newline, which is returned by the next getTwoChars. This may depend to some extent on the platform, as Unix defaults to a line-oriented input interface (at the OS level) but Windows to character-oriented input. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms