Am Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:25 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright <[email protected]>:
> On 3/27/2014 2:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > On 3/27/14, 2:24 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > >> The range protocol is designed to work with streams. > > > > It's designed to work with containers. > > I know we talked about streams when we designed it. > > > >> It's a giant fail > >> if they do not, or if you want to create a separate, non-range > >> universe to deal with streams. > > > > It's not a giant fail, we just need to adjust the notion. > > Are you suggesting that ranges needn't support streams? > > Note also that I suggested a way Steven could create an adapter with > the behavior he desired, yet still adhere to protocol. No notion > adjustments required. Ranges have equivalents in other languages: iterators in c++, IEnumerator in c#, Iterator in java all these languages have special stream types for raw data. I don't think it's bad if we also have streams/ranges separate in D.
