stream interfaces - with ranges

[David Nadlinger]

On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 16:38:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Range concept is good abstraction if underlying container 
>> controlls
>> ownership. But, in I/O we want to *move* ownership of bytes. 
>> Range is
>> not designed efficiently for the purpose, IMO.
>
> Yes, yes, yes. Perfect thinking.

And I think the issues you brought up some time ago regarding to 
orphan ranges and non-GC allocators are also rooted in this fact, 
i.e. that the design of ranges is completely oblivious to data 
ownership concerns.

But as you said, it's a very convenient interface for algorithms, 
so…

David