I/O extensions for common tasks

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Mon Dec 10 07:06:21 UTC 2018


On 10/12/2018 3:37 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 10 December 2018 at 01:51:56 UTC, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
>> The stdlib has all the low-level components we need to do lots of 
>> different workflows. However, there are a few gaps in the API in terms 
>> of high level, common tasks. For example, the API can read an entire 
>> Unicode text file to a string for a given filename, but not for a 
>> given File object!
>>
>> [...]
> 
> What's wrong with readText:
> 
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#readText

I thought the same, except it doesn't take a File.


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