Re: [boost] Review: Regular Expression Library

From: Lois Goldthwaite (loisg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-17 06:59:33

John Maddock wrote:

>
> >*  Having a class named "reg_match" and a function named "regex_match"
> >caused some confusion.  Consider renaming reg_match to
> regex_match_results,
> >match_results, or similar.
>
> Point taken, I would like to preserve some kind of backwards compatibility
> though for existing users - I guess deriving reg_match from match_results
> or whatever would do it (but not documenting reg_match), I'd like to keep
> the name not too long though - what do people prefer for the name of this,
> ideas?
>

How about a typedef? "typedef oldname newname;" to preserve binary
compatibility, the other way round if you want to preserve the legacy name but
not encourage it.

Lois