stream == range ? [Sliding window]

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 01-Jun-2015 00:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/31/15 10:50 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> 1. There must be a way to look at underlying buffer w/o copying anything.
>
> bulkRead would be useful for unbuffered streams. The input range
> interface requires a 1-element (at least) buffer. Buffered ranges would
> indeed need more optional primitives. -- Andrei

Then if unbuffered stream is an InputRange and it would by "default" 
fallback to reading one byte (T.sizeof but anyhow) at a time .. sounds 
scary. Might be cute but never what we'd want.


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Dmitry Olshansky