feature request, refactor std.stream.Stream

[BCS]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> The InputStream and OutputStream interfaces are all but unusable 
>> because they have such a huge number of methods to implements, however 
>> most of them are implemented by the Stream class in a vary abstract 
>> way (all build on 4 or 5 low level methods). This is all well and good 
>> until you want to implement Input/OutputStream with some other class 
>> (Thread in my case)
>>
>> Why not put all of those function in a pair of mixins? Then anyone who 
>> needs to make a stream like object could just implement the half dozen 
>> low level things and mix in a big chunk of code.
> 
> You mean like this?
> 
> http://www.invisibleduck.org/~sean/code/stream.d
> 
> 
> Sean

More or less that type of thing. I'm thinking the same philosophy could 
be applied to std.stream without braking any existing code.