Re: [boost] Re: algorithms namespace

From: Daniel Wallin (dalwan01_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-21 13:06:58

David Bergman wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> 
> 
>>Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>
>>>On Saturday 21 February 2004 04:59 am, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>We can (re-)consider 'boost::meta':
>>>>
>>>>   meta::if_<...>
>>>>   meta::find<>
>>>>   meta::vector<>
>>>>   meta::set<>
>>>>   meta::map<>
>>>>   ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Doesn't look bad at all, actually.
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm a big fan of using "meta" instead of "mpl".
>>
>>FWIW, I'm not. I type it often enough to be bothered by the 
>>completely unnecessary extra character.
> 
> 
> You are kidding, right? One extra character... :-)

No I'm not kidding. One more extra character means a much bigger part of
the identifiers will be occupied by the namespace name. It makes my code
harder to write and more importantly harder to read. It is worse in
the case of mpl, since you almost always have to qualify the names.

-- 
Daniel Wallin