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

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-15 11:10:23

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> 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.

I just remembered that having a template boost::iostreams::char_traits confused
some old compilers, because of std::char_traits. It's a bit late to be causing
regressions, so I think I'll go with stream / stream_buffer.

> Thanks again.

> Jonathan