Some changes to the design of base-writer.hpp

luprex/cpp/core/streambuffer.hpp

@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ public:
 
     // Copy bytes from the StreamBuffer into an external buffer.
     //
+    // Returns true if the bytes were successfully read.
+    //
     void read_bytes_into(char *target, int64_t len);
     
     // Read a string as a string_view.
@@ -387,10 +389,6 @@ public:
     void raise_truncated() { throw StreamCorruption(); }
     void raise_string_too_long() { throw StreamCorruption(); }
     
-    // This is always false, because this module throws exceptions
-    // when reading beyond EOF.
-    bool read_beyond_eof() { return false; }
-
 private:
     // Start and end of the allocated block.
     char *buf_lo_;