D2 and stream

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:35:21 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> == Quote from Mafi (mafi at example.org)'s article
>> Hi all,
>> what are the directions of D2's streams. I heared std.stream is going to
>> get deprecated in D2. I think it's good as long as
>> BufferedFile.readLine() returns char[] instead of string. Is D2 going to
>> get a Java-like stream model? What's wrong with the old one except that
>> it's a bit out of date?
>> Mafi
>
> Two things off the top of my head:
>
> 1.  std.stream doesn't correctly support files > 2GB on 32-bit Linux,  
> and possibly
> on other OS's as well.

Doesn't that have to do with using C's FILE * interface?

-Steve