An IO Streams Library

[Jason White via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 01:20:26 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> I posted a link to your repo a couple days ago in IRC.
> Honestly? I like it. It looks reasonably well made.

Thanks. I saw a link to it in a recent thread in Learn. I figured 
I'd finally make a proper post on it.

> There is a bit of work regarding interfaces + ranges.
> I.e. Sink really should be inheriting from OutputRange!ubyte

I haven't had much use for the interfaces, which is why they 
aren't fleshed out. Do you have any particular use cases for this 
in mind?

> Its no where near Phobos quality and that is ok for now.

I agree. The documentation needs work and I imagine there are 
lots of use cases that aren't well supported. Increased 
visibility and usage definitely helps with finding the warts.

> I do think given time it could be a reasonably good base to 
> rework std.socket, std.stdio, std.stream, std.cstream and 
> std.mmfile into a completely new set of modules.
>
> Most of that code it would end up replacing is I think almost 
> 10 years old either way its from D1 and I think we can do 
> better.