Talk:Keyboard input/Obtain a Y or N response

Scope questions

This task has some rather specialized hardware and OS interface requirements. For example, consider what this means for a language implementation which talks to stdin/stdout instead of to device drivers. Or, consider a language implementation which provides a (server side) web interface. Or consider a language which is used inside an emacs shell buffer. Or... all of the above with other cases as well (which is the case I would normally be dealing with).

Would a solution which includes a specific platform restriction be acceptable from a language which is not normally restricted to that platform? (For example, assuming a specific operating system so that it can link to device drivers provided by that OS? Or, for example, assuming a specific web interface mechanism so that it can ship relevant bits of javascript [or vbscript, if the author was so inclined] down to a specific version of a specific browser?) --Rdm 19:30, 15 October 2010 (UTC)