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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 11:19:46 -0400, Robert Clipsham  
<robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:

> On 16/05/2012 15:38, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:50:12 -0400, Walter Bright
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/15/2012 3:34 PM, Nathan M. Swan wrote:
>>>> I do agree for e.g. with binary data some data can't be read with
>>>> ranges (when
>>>> you need to read small chunks of varying size),
>>>
>>> I don't see why that should be true.
>>
>> How do you tell front and popFront how many bytes to read?
>>
>> -Steve
>
> A bit ugly but:
> ----
> // Default to 4 byte chunks
> auto range = myStream.byChunks(4);
> foreach (chunk; range) {
>     // Set the next chunk is 3 bytes
>     // Chunk after is 4 bytes
>     range.nextChunkSize = 3;
>
>     // Next chunk is always 5 bytes
>     range.chunkSize = 5;
> }

Yeah, I've seen this before.  It's not convincing.

-Steve