On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 13:32:15 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
IMHO C run-time I/O has no use in D. The amount of work spent
on special-casing the non-locking primitives of each C run-time,
repeating legacy mistakes (like text mode, codepages and
locales) and stumbling on portability problems (getc is a macro
we can't have) would have been better spent elsewhere -
designing our own I/O framework.
I agree. I wrote a (mostly complete) file stream implementation
that uses the native I/O API:
https://github.com/jasonwhite/io/blob/master/src/io/file.d
It allows for more robust open-flags than the fopen-style flags
(like "r+"). For seeking, I adapted it to use your concept of
marks (which I quite like) instead of SEEK_CUR and friends.
Please feel free to use this! (The Windows implementation hasn't
been tested yet, so it probably doesn't work.)
BTW, I was also working on buffered streams, but couldn't figure
out a good way to do it.
