[swift-evolution] Addition of a standardError OutputStream

[Saagar Jha]

What is the process for smaller issues like these? I’m guessing that this doesn’t need a proposal; where should it go? On bugs.swift.org <http://bugs.swift.org/>?

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 16:33, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
> 
> Right now it's more like "foo".write(to: &stream) but I agree that having to implement
> a custom stream is kind of irritating for stderr and stdout.
> 
> import Cocoa
> 
> var str = "Hello, playground"
> 
> struct StderrStream: OutputStream {
>     static var shared = StderrStream()
>     func write(_ string: String) { fputs(string, stderr) }
> }
> 
> str.write(to: &StderrStream.shared)
> 
> -- E
> 
> 
>> On Jul 8, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Saagar Jha via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Currently, it’s rather annoying to print to standard error, requiring either something low-level like fputs. I was wondering if a standardError OutputStream could be added to the standard library, so we could write something like print(“foo”, &standardError).
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Saagar Jha
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