Re: [boost] [iostreams] request for advice on naming [repost]

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-08 12:23:18

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis <technews <at> kangaroologic.com> writes:
>
>> sure that the analogy with the iterators library will be very
>> effective in helping users understand these templates. As a result,
>> I'm think of using the less technical-sounding names
>> "generic_streambuf" and "generic_stream."
>>
>> What do people think?
>
> seems ok. have you considered
>
> basic_streambuf<>

This one is taken ;-)

> basic_stream<>
>
> as an analogy with regex/string etc ?

>> I'm thinking of renaming the headers that are curently based on
>> component names so that all headers will have short, simple names.
>> E.g.,
>>
>>     bzip2.hpp
>>     counter.hpp
>>     gzip.hpp
>>     line.hpp
>>     newline.hpp
>>     one_step.hpp
>>     regex.hpp
>>     stdio.hpp
>>     symmetric.hpp
>>     test.hpp
>>     zlib.hpp
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I like you renaming.

Okay, thanks.

> -Thorsten

Jonathan