Re: [boost] Re: Re: indexed_set prerelease 7.0

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-31 23:36:04

At 01:25 PM 10/30/2003, Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:

 >> BTW, I'm not sure this namespace name is good idea. After I wrote
 >> "indexed_set" in header name, I'm very likely to type "indexed_set" in
 >> namespace name. Maybe, it the file really provides more than one
 >> indexed_set, the name can be tweaked?
 >>
 >
 >First time this issue arose (that I know of) was in Boost.Tuple,
 >which uses namespace boost::tuples instead of the expected
 >boost::tuple, for the same reasons as here. If someone finally
 >finds a way out of this problem, I'd gladly drop the 's'.

Hum... That seems like a mistake. Surely if the namespace should have the 
same name as the header? Although it is perhaps better English to make such 
names plural, there is a long history of header names which are singular.

--Beman