P.P.S. It's not overly hard to write an alternative version of
std.stdio.chunks that returns a real range. Something like this should
do:
// Warning: untested code
auto realChunks(File f, size_t blockSize)
{
static struct Result
{
private File f;
private ubyte[] buffer;
bool empty = true;
ubyte[] front;
this(File _f, size_t blockSize)
{
f = _f;
buffer.length = blockSize;
empty = false;
popFront();
}
void popFront()
{
front = f.rawRead(buffer);
if (front.length == 0)
empty = true;
}
}
return Result(f, blockSize);
}
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A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs
rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the
potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more
important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived. -- Michael B. Allen
