On Friday, 28 March 2014 at 08:34:08 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
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.
There are stream iterators in C++:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iterator/istream_iterator/
