Phobos Wish List/Next in Review Queue?

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On 26 November 2011 23:39, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 11/26/2011 5:46 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> Ranges are not good for reading N bytes from a file
>> descriptor.
>>
>
> Why not? Isn't that exactly what a range is supposed to be good for?
>

It sounds like a bad idea to me... I can imagine ending up with a whole
pile of allocations of short ranges, and then people doing bunches of
range concatenations to re-assemble the buffer. That's a lot of pointless
allocation and memcopying. D's apis should discourage inefficient usage
like that.
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