New Issue: Is writeln supposed to return bool?

mppf1 · February 17, 2021, 5:38pm

17179, "mppf", "Is writeln supposed to return bool?", "2021-02-17T17:38:02Z"

I was surprised to learn that writeln() does not return anything:


proc writeln(const args ...?n) {
  try! stdout.writeln((...args));
}

I was expecting it to return bool (where it would return false for whatever reason channel.writeln() can return false):


proc channel.writeln():bool throws {
  return try this.write(new ioNewline());
}

It appears that the top-level (non-method) write and writeln do not return a value while writef does.

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