std.file.read implementation contest
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Mon Feb 16 17:58:39 PST 2009
Sean Kelly wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> I totally agree. The useful spec of std.file.read should be "reads the
>> file to exhaustion in a buffer and returns it"
>
> Okay, that's a fair definition. So the correct behavior for reading an
> unbounded stream should be an out of memory error? This would be
> entirely reasonable, but any failure conditions should be described as
> well.
I think that's reasonable and will document it as such. Nice example
with /dev/random though :o).
Andrei
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