Streaming library

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/14/10 13:46 CDT, Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:21:37 +0400, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What's point of having multiple types that only differ with read
> signature? When would you prefer Stream!(byte) over Stream!(ubyte) or
> Stream!(char)? What's wrong with an adapter that allows you to read any
> kind of data off the stream?
>
> Why do you need to use a Stream directly for reading an array of e.g.
> ints off the stream? Save your time, don't write duplicated code. Use an
> adapter specially provided for that purpose.

Good point. Perhaps indeed it's best to only deal with bytes and 
characters at transport level.

Andrei