Re: [boost] Re: algorithms namespace

From: Douglas Paul Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-18 13:14:19

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Peter Dimov wrote:

> Douglas Paul Gregor wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Stefan Slapeta wrote:
> >
> >> Pavol Droba wrote:
> >>
> >>> It is not really reasonable to await from
> >>>     a user to always type boost::algorithm::string::trim.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Maybe it could help a little bit to replace 'algorithm' by 'algo' and
> >> 'string' by 'str'.
> >>
> >> IMHO, also shorter namespaces like 'boost::filesystem' have the
> >> problem of beeing too long to be used on every access. Long
> >> typenames like boost::filesystem::directory_iterator have a very
> >> high capability to make the code unreadable very quickly.
> >
> > What's wrong with
> >
> >   namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
> >
> > ?
>
> I would turn the question around and ask what's wrong with boost::fs (and
> when I see boost I think std). I've never understood the rationale behind
> long namespace names. Yes, I can alias filesystem to fs myself. But when all
> of your users alias filesystem to fs, and you find yourself doing the same
> in documentation, examples, tests, and in your own code, then perhaps it
> should have been named fs in the first place.

I do all sorts of things in non-header source files that I would not dare
do in headers, and creating a name like "fs" is one of them :)

        Doug