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in thread Simple Q: Make it prompt for a variable

Actually ya know what, I'm not sure it has a point. I was just thinking about cases dealing with trying to read and print to stdout/in and some times having problems with the "prompt" not being printed until you read from stdin.
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Re^4: Simple Q: Make it prompt for a variable
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2004 at 05:29 UTC

    It just seemed like an odd thing to add. I'm not sure if there's any sensible OS that buffers STDOUT by default if you print a newline to it.

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