[boost] Re: Rationale for library name convention [Was: Dot in Boost Library Names?]

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 10:52:40

Kresimir Fresl <fresl_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>>In case someone else remembers I'd be interested in the rationale for
>>>that choice. After all, boost is about C++ with many libraries ending
>>>up as candidates for standardization, so it strikes me as odd to start
>>>names with an uppercase letter and to have something else than the
>>>double colon as a separator.
>
>> These are not C++ identifiers; they're names.
>
> David.Abrahams
> Boost.Consulting
>
> Kresimir.Fresl
> Faculty.Of.Civil.Engineering
>
> Sorry. Can't resist.

His question was analogous to asking why we don't write
david::abrahams.

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Dave Abrahams
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