Re: Overlap between StreamReader and FileReader

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> Reading any format that contains textual data. I.e. things like HTML,
> OpenDocument, pdf, etc. While many of those are compressed, it seems
> likely that you could pass a stream through a decompressor which
> produces a decompressed stream.

Yeah, extending APIs for such features to support streams seems better
than adding support for all of them on Stream. Letting Stream just be
a low-level primitive for a stream of bytes seems good enough.


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