ReadAtSizer is a common abstraction for a stateless,
concurrently-readable fixed number of bytes.
This interface has existed in various codebases for over 3 years (previously
usually named SizeReaderAt). It is used inside Google in dl.google.com
(mentioned in https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide) and other
packages. It is used in Camlistore, in Juju, in the Google API Go client, in
github.com/nightlyone/views, and 33 other pages of Github search results.
It is implemented by io.SectionReader, bytes.Reader, strings.Reader, etc.
Time to finally promote this interface to the standard library and give it a
standard name, blessing it as best practice.
Updates #7263
Updates #14889
Change-Id: Id28c0cafa7d2d37e8887c54708b5daf1b11c83ea
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/21492 Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>