GZip File Reading

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:27:21 -0500, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 3.  Streams in D should be based on input ranges, not whatever crufty  
> old stuff std.stream is based on.

No.  I/O Ranges should be based on streams.  A stream is a low level  
construct that can read and/or write data.  In essence it is an  
abstraction of the capabilities of the OS.  BTW, that crufty old stuff  
probably way outperforms anything you could ever do with ranges as the  
base.  The range interface simply isn't built to deal with I/O properly.

For example, std.stdio.File is based on FILE *, which is an opaque stream  
interface.

There should probably be RangeStream which would wrap a range in a stream  
interface, if you want to go that route.

-Steve