phobos: What type to use instead of File when doing I/O on streams?

[J.Frank via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 23:50:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> You don't, in general. stdin is sometimes seekable and the 
> compiler doesn't know if it is or not until you try at runtime.

Hm. "Maybe the stream is seekable, maybe it is not" is not really 
an option for a language that is supposed to be type safe.

I just found std.stream which looks very good. But it is 
deprecated??

> You could write a wrapper struct for File though that @disables 
> the seek function. It would have a File member, alias file 
> this;, a constructor that forwards to it (optionally, you could 
> also construct it as a File and assign it), and then a 
> @disabled function with the same signature as the seek call in 
> File. Then, it will no longer compile as long as you use your 
> wrapper.

Thank you for your solution, but this sounds more lika a hack.