Re: stream == range ?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/31/2015 8:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Given that it seems Design by Introspection has been working well for us and
we're continuing to enhance its use in Phobos, it seems to me that optional
methods for ranges are the way to go.
An optional method for any range is

size_t bulkRead(T[] target);

which fills as much as possible from target and returns the number of items 
copied.

Another good candidate for optional methods is lookahead.

What worked effectively in Warp is:

    E[] lookAhead() { ... }

which, if the range has a bunch of elements E ready to go, this gives it. To the 
consume it,

    void popFrontN(size_t) { ... }