deprecating std.stream, std.cstream, std.socketstream

[Sean Kelly]

On May 16, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 5/15/2012 4:43 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> One thing I'd like in a buffered input API is a way to perform transactional
>> reads such that if the full read can't be performed, the read state remains
>> unchanged. The best you can do with most APIs is to check for a desired
>> length, but what I'd I don't want to read until a full line is available, and
>> I don't know the exact length?  Typically, you end up having to double
>> buffer, which stinks.
> 
> std.stdio.byLine()

That was just an example. What if I want to do a formatted read and I'm reading from a file that someone else is writing to?  I don't want to block or get a partial result and an EOF that needs to be reset.