Re: [boost] [review] Fast track formal review of Forward library begins today

From: dan marsden (danmarsden_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-27 09:11:41

Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
>  shunsuke wrote:
>> BTW, I'm tempted to rename Egg to Boost.Functor.

I'd suggest avoiding Functor as a name. Functor has specific meaning in the

functional programming community, which is not consistent with what Egg

delivers.

>What about Boost.Functional (already taken?) or
>Boost.FunctionAdapters, or, my favourite,
>Boost.FunctionObjectsOnSteroid :). Or just keep Egg, is simple and
>there is precendent for non descriptive names in boost.

Personally I like the name Egg, it's short enough for a namespace
name, and easy to remember. Boost.FunctionObjectsOnSteroid does have
a certain something as well :)

Cheers

Dan





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