On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:27:21 -0500, dsimcha <[email protected]> wrote:
3. Streams in D should be based on input ranges, not whatever crufty old stuff std.stream is based on.
No. I/O Ranges should be based on streams. A stream is a low level construct that can read and/or write data. In essence it is an abstraction of the capabilities of the OS. BTW, that crufty old stuff probably way outperforms anything you could ever do with ranges as the base. The range interface simply isn't built to deal with I/O properly.
For example, std.stdio.File is based on FILE *, which is an opaque stream interface.
There should probably be RangeStream which would wrap a range in a stream interface, if you want to go that route.
-Steve
