On 13/05/2012 22:38, Walter Bright wrote:
This discussion started in the thread "Getting the const-correctness of
Object sorted once and for all", but it deserved its own thread.
These modules suffer from the following problems:
1. poor documentation, dearth of examples & rationale
2. toHash(), toString(), etc., all need to be const pure nothrow, but
it's turning out to be problematic for doing it for these classes
3. overlapping functionality with std.stdio
4. they should present a range interface, not a streaming one
I make use of std.stream quite a lot... It's horrible, it has to go.
I'm not too bothered if replacements aren't available straight away, as
it doesn't take much to drop 10 lines of replacement in for the
functionality I use from it until the actual replacement appears.
--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
