[chuck-users] chout and cherr confuse me [BUG?]

[Ge Wang]

Greetings!

Indeed an important question!

In short, chout prints to stdout (buffered output, higher performance), 
and cherr prints to stderr (more timely and synchronous, handled 
differently by console/pipes/redirect).  The existing <<< >>> operators 
prints to stderr by default (there was actually no way to print to stdout 
before chout).

If one desires truly synchronous output, then cherr is probably the way 
to go.  At the same time, there are a few nuances of cout (C++) - there 
is a method to force flushing the buffer - this actually exists for chout 
- just invoke .flush().  Inserting an "endl" into C++ cout effectively 
flushes the output stream - this is currently not implemented.  I've made
this addition in CVS (IO.newline() or "\n" by itself will cause a flush 
on chout), and this should be in the next release.

I hope this helps - thanks!

Best,
Ge!


On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Kassen wrote:

> Hey Rob,
> 
>
>       But the bottom line: if you've been happy with the way printing
>       to stdout and stderr works your OS works, you'll be fine with
>       ChucK.
> 
> 
> Well, I'm distinctly non-happy with ChucK here for the reasons in my last
> post. Three messages the first time i run it, then four with this offset
> seems like a bug to me.
> 
> Yours,
> kas.
> 
> 
>