On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:57:44 AM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote:

>
> Streams are more consistent, faster, and 100% backwards compatible as 
> of 0.10.  The "compatibility mode" aka "old mode" is folded into the 
> API more cleanly.  You can `pause()` a flowing stream, and then start 
> calling `read()` again safely.  We'll keep exposing streams from core 
> APIs, and advocating extending the stream base classes in userland 
> programs. 
>

Is the old mode to be used only with old libraries that rely on it, or is 
it a subset of the new functionality? Does it still make sense to say 
`on('data', ...)` when we're just consuming things off the stream one by 
one?

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