[boost] Re: [Range] issues

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-03 11:45:44

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>>>  4. Having a pile of names prefixed by "range_" (like
>>>>     boost::range_const_iterator) just seems wrong to me when we
>>>>     have namespaces.  Is there a good reason we're not using
>>>>     boost::range::const_iterator or boost::ranges::const_iterator?
>>>
>>> decision made in review or post-review. people like it that way.
>>
>> Count one more vote against, FWIW.
>
>
> ok, will do. the question that I have is that will changing these
> names have any effect except on me which has to do it?
>
> if we can provide more thourough naming guide-lines for future boost
> libs, then let's do so.

This affects me too. In the iostreams library I had metafunctions named category
and char_type which in the usual case simply extract member types of the same
name. In the interest of uniform naming I changed these to io_category and
io_char, which sound a bit funny to me, esp. the latter.

Jonathan