Bug 590 – std.stream has no way to create a text-mode file

Or perhaps this bug should be there's no binary mode 'din' and 'dout' because the inconsistency is really the problem. The std.stream and std.cstream modules try to present a uniform interface to stream io. The problem is that C's FILE handles have a concept of text mode vs binary mode, and stdin and stdout C FILE streams are always text mode. However it is not possible to create a std.stream.File or BufferedFile in text mode. Therefore if I want to write a stream function that consistently handles both stdio and file streams like: write_some_text(OutputStream stream) { stream.writef("\n"); } this will give different output (on Windows) depending on whether stream is std.cstream.dout or a std.stream.BufferedFile.

std.stream was deprecated and will be removed in 2016