Hi.

Let me just say first, I like D and am impressed that somebody actually had the balls to go against the main stream and take the flak. If MS can just 'create' a new language like C#, why can't the laymen do it to? Isn't that how Linux started? Just some person who want something he didn't have, so he made it. If you don't like it, don't use it!

Furthermore, there is room for such a language. I work in the telecom industry, and we deal with millions of records each day from thousands of sources (not necessarily ODBC, sometimes hardware). Having any programming language that gives me the power of C and the development time / reduction of errors of Java is a GREAT idea as long as it produces native code. VM's just aren’t an option for me, I need as many tick of the processor as the OS will give me running MY code not someone else’s.

Anyway, that's just my two cents, right or wrong. For the real reason of the post…

I am now in the process of becoming proficient in D and spent the time to make GNU's zlib available to D apps. I would however very much like to add a wrapper around the library that fit's into D's streams for ease of use. I have looked at the stream.d source file and it doesn’t seem to big, but was wandering if anybody has any docs on it. I didn't find it in the D language specs(then again, maybe I am blind) and I don’t really feel like drudging through all that code (just did it with zlib.h :-).

Just trying to save a little time, thanks!

Karim Sharif
Software Engineer
Morgan Tariff Managemnt
Karim@SharifClan.com

Karim@SharifClan.com wrote:
> I am now in the process of becoming proficient in D and spent the time to make
> GNU's zlib available to D apps. I would however very much like to add a wrapper
> around the library that fit's into D's streams for ease of use. I have looked at
> the stream.d source file and it doesn’t seem to big, but was wandering if
> anybody has any docs on it. I didn't find it in the D language specs(then again,
> maybe I am blind) and I don’t really feel like drudging through all that code
> (just did it with zlib.h :-). 

Nope.  You don't need to pay attention to much of it - just the Stream class.  Note that you're going to have to remove the "private this () { }" line until the next version is released.