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From: David Bergman (davidb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-01 14:04:02


Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Phil Richards wrote:
>
> > Filesystems are related to I/O, otherwise they serve no point.
>
> uh, you could say the same about computers, too.

Great idea! We should put everything in "boost::comp" for "computational
notions." ;-)

> Obviously, everything is somehow related. Pushing the
> abstraction this far is IMO just one step too far.

I agree, and agree with David Abrahams in that "io" indeed indicates the
input or output of data, which is quite different from the hierarchical
beast called a file system...

/David


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