std.Stream.InputStream convenience functions

[bitwise via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 14:40:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 00:05:06 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> Thoughts?
>
> std.stream is on the chopping block and has been for years, and 
> it was decided at dconf that we'd actually get rid of it now 
> rather than just have it say in the documentation that it's 
> going away. As I understand it, the only reason that it wasn't 
> deprecated in 2.068 was because of some sort of issue with the 
> PR that forced it to be delayed. But there's no point in making 
> any improvements to it, because that code is not going to be 
> around for much longer.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Wow...this is surprising. At first glance, the streams seemed to 
be fairly well done. What's the reason for them being removed? 
and what is meant to be the replacement?

    Bit