Re: [boost] Re: Boost Iterable Range Library update (v1.5)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-08 11:17:08

At 08:10 AM 11/8/2004, John Torjo wrote:
 >
 >>>No comments of the code itself, however I'm not a fan of rng as a
 >>>namespace, I keep reading Random Number Generator.
 >>>
 >>>helpfully though I can't think of an alternative!
 >>>
 >>>range (likely to conflict?)
 >>>irange (likely to be used as a variable name in place of 'i' ?)
 >>>irl (not good either)
 >>>rangelib (too long?)
 >>
 >>
 >> Tradition would dictate "ranges"
 >
 >I'm fine with ranges:: namespace, although I find it a little big
 >(containing too many chars).

But it is way better than "rng", IMO. I'm like John, and read rng as random 
number generator.

--Beman