Re: [boost] [iostreams] please vote on template names

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-11 19:04:48

Larry Evans wrote:
> On 07/11/2005 05:02 PM, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> 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
>>
> Jonathan, I just looked at:
>
>    libs/iostreams/doc/index.html
>
> where, in section with title:
>
>    Policy-Based Streams and Stream Buffers
>
> there's:
>
>    streambuf_facade and stream_facade implement standard stream
>    buffers and streams which perform i/o by delegating to a contained
>    Filter or Device.
>
> so I was thinking maybe:
>
>    {stream,streambuf}_delegator
>
> would be better, or at least it would reflect the above wording in
> the documentation ;)

Reflecting that wording isn't a high priority. ;-) In fact, I think the wording
is a bit awkward.

(Also, there's already a template delegating_streambuf which implements a
streambuf that delegates to a second streambuf.)

Jonathan