On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 00:07:27 UTC, Freddy wrote:
Would it be a bad idea to add a read primitive to ranges for streaming?---- struct ReadRange(T){ size_t read(T[] buffer); //and | or T[] read(size_t request);/+ empty,front,popFront,etc +/ } ----
IT seems redundant to me. It's semantically no different than iterating through the range normally with front/popFront. For objects where reading large amounts of data is more efficient than reading one-at-a-time, you can implement a byChunks function like stdio.File.
