Network I/O and streaming in D2

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:31:19 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I really think D needs to replace FILE * with it's own buffering  
>> scheme.  That way we can control the underlying buffering and have  
>> access to it.  We can also take advantage of D features that aren't  
>> available in the underlying code, such as thread local storage to avoid  
>> taking global locks.
>
> This isn't done because mixing D and C I/O is a desirable property.

It can still be this way, just have a special D buffer implementation that  
outputs to a FILE * or reads from it.  But I shouldn't be *required* to  
deal with FILE * when I open a file or network socket and only ever use it  
in D.

Even though it's desirable, there are considerable drawbacks that need to  
be justified.

-Steve