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

[Stewart Gordon]

On 16/05/2012 16:59, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

And is what you want to do with a text file in many cases.

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

Why would anybody want to read a large binary file _one byte at a time_?

Stewart.