Re: [boost] Re: String algorithm library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-18 12:14:01

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From: "James Curran/MVP" <jamescurran_at_[hidden]>

>     While there is a certain elegance to the names, I'd have to vote
against
> those.  It's not immediately obvious from the names trim/trimmed which one
> is inplace and which isn't.

well, I would say it is. verbs in the imperative donote mutation, adjectives
denote copy.

>  Further, in the matter of
> lower_cased/to_lower_case, if you guess wrong, the other one isn't nearby
in
> an alphabetic listing of functions.

remove or add "to_" from one of them?

regards

Thorsten, AAU