feature request, refactor std.stream.Stream

[Sean Kelly]

BCS wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>> The InputStream and OutputStream interfaces are all but unusable 
>>> because they have such a huge number of methods to implements, 
>>> however most of them are implemented by the Stream class in a vary 
>>> abstract way (all build on 4 or 5 low level methods). This is all 
>>> well and good until you want to implement Input/OutputStream with 
>>> some other class (Thread in my case)
>>>
>>> Why not put all of those function in a pair of mixins? Then anyone 
>>> who needs to make a stream like object could just implement the half 
>>> dozen low level things and mix in a big chunk of code.
>>
>> You mean like this?
>>
>> http://www.invisibleduck.org/~sean/code/stream.d
> 
> More or less that type of thing. I'm thinking the same philosophy could 
> be applied to std.stream without braking any existing code.

Yup.  I just used that as an example because I had it lying around.


Sean