Phobos packages a bit confusing

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:25:41 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> If it closes file automatically, then why do you close it explicitly in 
> slurp?

Because a compiler bug prevented the destructor from functioning 
correctly. The manual close does no harm now but of course should be 
removed.

> The code is almost the same except that "Lines" class works with any 
> Input Stream (memory stream, file stream, network stream, pipe, i/o 
> device etc).

I hope we'd be able to add such streams to Phobos too, perhaps using 
your networking library for transport.


Andrei