Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   How are you supposed to detect the end of file if you are not supposed
> > to ever reach the end of the file? That's kind of contradictory.

> It's different in every language of course, but what typically happens 
> is that you have a function that says "is this EOF yet?", and if it is, 
> you stop reading. And if you don't stop, that's a program bug, and 
> should be signalled as one.

  I fail to see how that's different from how C does it. You read a value
and check if it was EOF. What's the fundamental difference?

> >   Now you are twisting the argument, and arguing for the sake of arguing.
> > The above context had nothing to do with printf or function names.

> My point is that having a debugger doesn't magically solve all the problems.

  But it solves many of the problems you are complaining about.

> >> Well at least you can easily look up Haskell function names.
> > 
> >   Yes, that's something not possible with C.

> It wasn't when I was trying to learn it, no. Today, we have the Internet.

  Exactly how is that different from haskell?

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