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Subject: [boost] [mixin] Library name
From: Matus Chochlik (chochlik_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-12 09:36:11


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte <mjklaim_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Borislav Stanimirov <b.stanimirov_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > * EntityComponent - not great since it doesn't exactly follow the
> > entity-component-system pattern, although it can be said that it allows
> the
> > construction of entities from components.
> >
> >
> As long as you consider that it is not implementing the ECS pattern, it
> shouldn't use this name indeed.
>
> +1

If the `Mixin` name is 'bad' because it is used to describe something
different in C++ then `EntityComponent` is 'bad' for the same reason


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