Re: [boost] [interval] in_zero

From: Guillaume Melquiond (guillaume.melquiond_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-08 06:38:17

Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 11:13 -0500, David Abrahams a écrit :
> Why isn't this function called zero_in?
> 
>     if (zero_in(x)) whatever...
> 
> seems a lot more natural than
> 
>     if (in_zero(x)) whatever...
> 
> After all, the question is whether zero is in x, not whether x is in
> zero!

Agreed. And it was already been mentioned before, but unfortunately not
at the time of the review. I am bit reluctant to change the interface of
a library people have been using for three years now. At least the
interval proposal does not contain a function with such a name.

Best regards,

Guillaume