Re: [boost] [range] #11202: boost.sort header conflicts with boost.range header

Subject: Re: [boost] [range] #11202: boost.sort header conflicts with boost.range header
From: Gareth.Sylvester-Bradley_at_[hidden]
Date: 2018-09-03 09:43:24

On 3 September 2018 10:22, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> On 09/03/18 11:42, Gareth Sylvester-Bradley via Boost wrote:
> > At 2 Sep 2018 18:48, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> >> On 9/2/2018 10:09 AM, Mathias Gaunard via Boost wrote:
> >>> On 2 September 2018 at 03:21, Steven Ross via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> I think it is a bad idea to make an exception for boost::range::sort
> >>>>> when all the other range algorithms are directly in boost:: .
> >>>>
> >>>> It's not pretty, but it sounds reasonable to me.  Do you have a
> >>>> counterproposal?
> >>>
> >>> Rename the "sort" library to something else.
> >>> "sortlib" is very bad, but other names could be found.
> >>
> >> I was just suggesting a change in the namespace name to something else.
> >> It can still be called the sort library, even if the namespace is not
> >> boost::sort.
> > 
> > Would it be appropriate to adopt the strategy of Boost.Tuple, whose namespace is boost::tuples, and use boost::sorts as the
> > library namespace?
> > 
> > The naming consistency guidelines say:
> > 
> > * The library's primary namespace (in parent ::boost) is given that same name, except when there's a component with that
> > name (e.g., boost::tuple), in which case the namespace name is pluralized. For example, ::boost::filesystem.
> > 
> > That's maybe not quite the case here, but it's not horrible!
>
> I'm not a native speaker, but I don't think "sort", in the meaning the 
> library puts in it, has a plural form as it is a verb. "Sorting" might 
> be an alternative.

Native speakers are not always the best people to make these decisions, as they're more like to use idioms or obscure language. :-)

However, https://www.google.com/search?q=sort+meaning gives me:

    Sort, noun
    2. [Computing] "the arrangement of data in a prescribed sequence."

as well as the verb, "arrange systematically in groups; separate according to type."

But boost::sorting works too!

G