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

[Walter Bright]

On 5/16/2012 9:41 AM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> 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_?

You can have that range read from byChunk(). It's really the same thing that C's 
stdio does.