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

[Walter Bright]

On 5/13/2012 1:48 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 13/05/2012 20:42, Walter Bright wrote:
> <snip>
>> 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).
>
> So std.stdio.File is the replacement for the std.stream stuff?

Not exactly. Ranges are the replacement. std.stdio.File is merely a range that 
deals with files.


> How does/will it provide all the different kinds of stream that std.stream
> provides, as well as the other kinds of stream that applications will need?

The future is a range interface, not a stream one.


> What's the plan for std.cstream?

I don't see a purpose for std.cstream.


>> The only reason it's there at the moment is for backwards compatibility.
>
> So the plan is to deprecate that, then remove it, _then_ fix this issue?
>
> Or make toString and toHash in the stream classes bypass constancy?

What do you suggest?