• Ben Hinkle (12/12) Feb 08 2005 D's std.stream module is similar to C#'s stream architecture. For exampl...

Ben Hinkle <Ben_member pathlink.com> writes:

share Stream, BufferedStream and FileStream (oh, and MemoryStream). The
difference is in std.stream the Readers and Writers are merged into the base

See for example, 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconASynchronousFileIO.asp

My question: is it worth it and is anyone willing to add this to std.stream? I
know the Win32 API supports async IO but I have no idea about Posix systems. 


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemSecurityCryptographyCryptoStreamClassTopic.asp

I think it would be nice to round out std.stream. 
-Ben