On Sunday, 13 May 2012 at 21:39:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
This discussion started in the thread "Getting the
const-correctness of Object sorted once and for all", but it
deserved its own thread.
These modules suffer from the following problems:
1. poor documentation, dearth of examples & rationale
2. toHash(), toString(), etc., all need to be const pure
nothrow, but it's turning out to be problematic for doing it
for these classes
3. overlapping functionality with std.stdio
4. they should present a range interface, not a streaming one
My D:YAML library (YAML parser) depends on std.stream
(e.g. for cross-endian compatibility and loading from memory),
and I've been waiting for a replacement since the first release.
I support removing std.stream, but it needs a replacement with
equivalent functionality.
Actually, I've postponed a 1.0 release _until_ std.stream is
replaced.
