Getting the const-correctness of Object sorted once and for all

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun May 13 12:42:32 PDT 2012


On 5/13/2012 9:39 AM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> It seems that the main obstacle is rewriting the relevant methods in std.stream.
> The current implementation doesn't make sense anyway - reading the entire
> contents of a file is certainly not the way to generate a hash or string
> representation of the stream. I'm thinking the hash should probably be the
> stream handle, and the string representation could perhaps be the full pathname
> of the file. Of course, what it should be for non-file streams is another
> matter. (This would be a change at the API level, but when the API's as
> fundamentally flawed as this....)

I'd like to see std.stream dumped. I don't see any reason for it to exist that 
std.stdio doesn't do (or should do).

The only reason it's there at the moment is for backwards compatibility.



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