randomIO, std.file, core.stdc.stdio

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 01:19:49 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
> then I will prefer the core.stdc.stdio approach.  I find it's 
> appearance extremely much cleaner...

only if you are really used to write C code. when you see 
pointer, or explicit type size argument in D, it is a sign of C 
disease.

> I'll probably wrap those routines in a struct to ensure things 
> like files being properly closed, and not have explicit 
> pointers persisting over large areas of code.

exactly what std.stdio.File did! ;-)