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

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed May 16 08:59:37 PDT 2012


On 5/16/2012 7:38 AM, 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?

std.byLine() does it.

In general, you can read n bytes by calling empty, front, and popFront n times.


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