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

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-14 12:41:05

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Jonathan Turkanis" writes:
>> David Abrahams wrote:

>>> Sounds like stream<X> and streambuf<X> might be a good choice.
>>
>> I'm afraid that readers of library documentation and user code will
>> get boost::iostreams::streambuf and std::streambuf mixed up.
>> Otherwise, it would be my first choice.
>
> No problem; just use qualification. you can also tell people there's a
> namespace alias in place for boost::iostreams
>
>       namespace io = boost::iostreams;

Okay, I've run out of time for renaming and it looks like this is the safest
choice -- meaning I'm sure I won't end up hating these names, even if they cause
some confusion.

Thanks again.

Jonathan