Re: [boost] filesystem - please don't use fstream.hpp

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-15 14:49:10

I don't think it's a problem. We also have iterator.hpp and I think there
are other such examples.
We use the boost/... prefix so we don't have to worry about things like
this.

-Dave

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           David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal D. Becker" <nbecker_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] filesystem - please don't use fstream.hpp

> >>>>> "Beman" == Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>     Beman> At 10:34 AM 8/15/2002, Neal D. Becker wrote:
>     >> I think the choice of fstream.hpp for filesystem is going to cause
a
>     >> lot of confusion.  There is already an <fstream>, and g++ as of
3.1
>     >> still has <fstream.h>.
>
>     Beman> What would you suggest?  Given that
<boost/filesystem/fstream.hpp> is
>     Beman> a very thin wrapper of the <fstream> classes, the header name
(and
>     Beman> matching namespace and class names) seemed appropriate to me.
>
>
> Maybe something like fstream_wrap.hpp?
>
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