random k-sample of a file

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> On a different topic, your use of std.stream reminded me. I was thinking of
>> yanking it from Phobos. Thoughts?
> 
> ..what?  You want to remove most of Phobos' IO capabilities?
> 
> I'm guessing there's something else you'd like to replace it with, but
> I wonder what it could be.

Well I'd like to extend std.stdio with capabilities that meet and exceed 
  those in std.stream. The design of std.stream is ok, but makes it hard 
to compose streams, and requires a lot of hand coding to define new streams.

Andrei