Reading from stdin

Using Swift
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Hi there,

Coming from C++ with std::cin, why isn’t the reading of stdin for Swift a function as easy swift-y as print(_:)?

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The Swift standard library does provide readLine(), which is the analog for print.

-Chris

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On Feb 7, 2016, at 9:38 PM, Natthan Leong via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

Hi there,

Coming from C++ with std::cin, why isn’t the reading of stdin for Swift a function as easy swift-y as print(_:)?