Phobos Wish List/Next in Review Queue?
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 26 05:46:22 PST 2011
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:45 -0500, Walter Bright
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/2011 7:02 PM, dsimcha wrote:
>> * Streams. (Another item where the bottleneck is mostly at the design
>> level and
>> people not really knowing what they want.)
>
> I'm not sure what the purpose of streams would be, now that we have
> ranges.
We still need streams for low-level i/o. e.g. FILE * is a stream.
ranges are good for high-level concepts, like a range of lines from a
stream. Or a range of XML nodes. Ranges are not good for reading N bytes
from a file descriptor.
-Steve
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