SimpleIO in JEP draft 8323335

[Cay Horstmann]

On 19/02/2024 09.03, Remi Forax wrote:

> In the other hand, i'm pretty sure "print" should be removed, because it's confusing to have both "print" and "println" (at least there is not "printf") and the semantics of "print" is not obvious for beginners ("println" and "readLine" are line oriented, but "print" is not).

The absence of print without a newline is a sharp edge for beginning Python programmers, who have to learn about print(something, end='') as soon as they want to print something like

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