Phobos packages a bit confusing

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

retard wrote:
> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:01:22 +0100, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> 
>> KennyTM~ wrote:
>>>>> By
>>>>> far the two most important pieces of I/O functionality I need are:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.  Read a text file line-by-line.
>>>> foreach (line; new Lines!(char) (new File ("foobar.txt")))
>>>>    Cout (line).newline;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>> yuck.
>> Yuck?? I find that code very elegant. How would you like it to be?
> 
> I guess something like this:
> 
> JustDoItWith("foobar.txt") {
>   ...
> }

foreach (char[] line; File("text.txt").byLine()) {
    ...
}

Efficient, flexible, convenient. Closes automatically the file, too, 
which Tango seems doesn't.


Andrei