Re: [boost] Filesystem: basename

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-06 11:34:31

At 11:32 AM 8/6/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >I think this is a badly-chosen name.  Both POSIX and Python have a
 >basename function which does roughly what our leaf() function does.
 >
 > ...
 >
 >I don't think we should use creative naming in cases like this one.

The naming scheme based the root/branch/leaf tree metaphor was carefully 
worked out and reviewed over a long period of time. It would not be 
beneficial to use a different naming scheme for one of the decomposition 
function names, IMO.

--Beman