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

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-13 09:01:41

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jeff Flinn
| Sent: 13 July 2005 13:47
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] [iostreams] please vote on template names
| 
| 
| "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
| news:db1bn4$gad$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
| > Rob Stewart wrote:
| >> From: "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]>
| >
| > But speaking of "buf/stream," how about using "buf" and 
| "stream"? E.g.,
| >
| >   typedef stream<file> filestream;
| >   typedef buf<file>    filebuf;
| >
| >   typedef stream<array> arraystream;
| >   typedef buf<array>    arraybuf;
| 
| I like these the best so far, particularly 'stream'. Thinking 
| about seeing 
| 'buf' appearing in code some time in the future without all 
| of the context 
| in this thread is a little unsettling. Perhaps 'buf' should be 
| un-abbreviated to 'buffer'? Although this fly's in the face 
| of JW's thoughts 
| on the non-buffer nature of streambuf.
| 
| After a quick re-read of your docs ( from a few months ago ), 
| this comes to 
| mind:
| 
| resource_stream
| resource_streambuf
| 
| based on:
| 
| <quotation>
| Concepts
| The fundamental building blocks of the library are the 
| concepts of a Source, 
| which provides read access to a sequence of characters, a Sink, which 
| provides write access to a sequence of characters, an 
| InputFilter, which 
| filters input read from a Source, and an OutputFilter, which 
| filters output 
| written to a Sink. Sources, Sinks and their refinements are called 
| resources. InputFilters, OutputFilters and their refinements 
| are called 
| filters.
| </quotation>

Would this suggest

source_stream
source_streambuf

rather than REsource?

Paul

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