Re: protocol for using InputRanges

[Walter Bright]

On 3/28/2014 1:32 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
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.


Do you see a point to be able to, in an algorithm, seamlessly swap a socket with 
a string?

empty-front-popFront works with streams and non-streams. Why break this?