Re: [boost] Filesystem Library Review

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-20 09:41:08

At 07:50 AM 9/20/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

 >From: "John Maddock" <john_maddock_at_[hidden]>
 >
 >> I don't really like the operator << usage, personally I would have
 >> preferred:
 >>
 >> path::append(const path&);
 >> path::operator+=(const path&);
 >> path operator+(const path&, const path&);
 >
 >Or maybe:
 >
 >path::operator/=(const path&);
 >path operator/(const path&, const path&);
 >
 >Too cute? I rather like it.

Wonderful! Mirroring the generic grammar is really clever. I wish I had 
thought of it myself.

When I realized operator+= and operator+ were confusing (see my reply to 
John Maddock's posting), the only other operators I looked at were <<= and 
<<.  They have been satisfactory in practice, but /= and / will be better.

Thanks,

--Beman