On Fri, 22 May 2009 17:10:45 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I'm concentrating mostly on usages with foreach, not algorithms. If we
are to have streams that fit into the range model, then they need to be
foreach'able. I don't know that they need a lot of support to feed
into std.algorithm as reference data. I.e. you aren't going to sort a
network stream.
Plenty of algorithms work on input ranges.
I'm confused, by input range you mean a stream? Because I'm operating
under the assumption that an input range is anything that defines front,
popFront, and empty. While you can shoehorn a stream into being an input
range, they don't necessarily implement the required elements easily. We
may be confusing terminology.
Can you name an example of an input range that is a stream, and an
algorithm that mutates the stream in place (thereby requiring ref
elements)?
-Steve
