buffered input

[Robert Jacques]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:43:47 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 2/6/11 6:01 EST, Tomek Sowiński wrote:
>> Nick Sabalausky napisał:
>>
>>> discard and fetch?
>>
>> I like that.
>
> What's missing is the part that they refer to front. Maybe  
> discardFromFront() and fetchToFront()? But then I like  
> discardFromFront() and appendToFront() better - the latter is about as  
> long and more informative.
>
> Don't forget that these are relatively rarely used.
>
>
> Andrei
>

Actually, I don't think these functions would be relatively rarely used. I  
don't see that many people using a buffered input's popFront. Instead I  
see shiftFront in its place and an appendToFront call has to be made  
whenever buffer.front.empty.