[boost] [Filesystem.v3] Request to rename imbue to something else like global_locale

Subject: [boost] [Filesystem.v3] Request to rename imbue to something else like global_locale
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-10 10:33:23

Hello,

The static member function

   boost::filesystem::path::imbue(std::locale const &)

Is very misleading.

In the C++ standard library imbue usually refers to specific object like
specific stream and not referred to global object.

And because it is possible to write:

   boost::filesystem::path p;
   p.imbue(some_locale);
   p="some_file.txt";

Which looks like you change p's locale and not global locale.

I'd recommend, provide static member function

   boost::filesystem::path::global_locale

With same semantics as imbue and deprecate imbue.

Artyom