rust/src/rustbook/term.rs

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//! An abstraction of the terminal. Eventually, provide color and
//! verbosity support. For now, just a wrapper around stdout/stderr.

use std::env;
use std::old_io::stdio;

pub struct Term {
    err: Box<Writer + 'static>
}

impl Term {
    pub fn new() -> Term {
        Term {
            err: Box::new(stdio::stderr())
        }
    }

    pub fn err(&mut self, msg: &str) {
        // swallow any errors
        let _ = self.err.write_line(msg);
        env::set_exit_status(101);
    }
}