On Monday, 25 July 2016 at 18:54:27 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
Are there reasons why one would use rawRead and rawWrite rather
than fread and fwrite when doiing binary random io? What are
the advantages?
In particular, if one is reading and writing structs rather
than arrays or ranges, are there any advantages?
yes: keeping API consistent. ;-)
for example, my stream i/o modules works with anything that has
`rawRead`/`rawWrite` methods, but don't bother to check for any
other.
besides, `rawRead` is just looks cleaner, even with all
`(&a)[0..1])` noise.
so, a question of style.
