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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-11 17:52:52


"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to pick good names for the fundamental iostreams components
> streambuf_facade and stream_facade:
>
> template<typename Device ... >
> class streambuf_facade : public basic_streambuf< > {
> // Peform i/o using an instance of Device
> };
>
> template<typename Device ... >
> class stream_facade : public basic_[i][o]stream< > {
> // Peform i/o using an instance of Device
> };
>
> Here are the candidates:
>
> 1. streambuf_facade / stream_facade
> 2. generic_streambuf / generic_stream
> 3. streambuf / stream
> 4. xstreambuf / xstream
> 5. device_streambuf / device_stream
> 6. devbuf / devstream
>
> Please let me know what you think.

The even numbered choices look bad to me. I don't know enough about
the library to judge about the others.

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Dave Abrahams
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