Re: [boost] Re: resource manager naming

From: Sam Partington (Sam.Partington_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-27 12:04:10

Could it not just be called shared.  After all it is merely a more general
term of shared_ptr.  And the type of the resource kind of makes it implicit.

e.g.

shared<file>  is a shared file. crystal.

Though this doesn't fit at all with non sharing policies.

Sam

Alisdair Meredith wrote:
> Larry Evans wrote:
>
>> Would the GOF name, proxy, be too non-specific?  Policy names might
>> provide the specifics (whether it's a pointer or a resource).
>
> Proxy, if anything, sends the wrong message to me.  The name suggests
> 'reference', rather then 'owner'
>
> 'bookkeeper' is the best I can come up with so far, but that is a very
> odd word to type <g> and still too long.