Re: [boost] Presentation of Boost.Process (SoC project)

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-23 04:47:21

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On 8/17/06, Oleg Abrosimov <beholder_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Hello Julio,
>> 
>> First of all, I want to thank you and your mentor for the new great
>> library. I've started to read it's docs from top to bottom and I
>> have a few comments till now:

[snip]

> 
>> 5) the argument member function is non-intuitive. it is a noun but
>> should be a verb like add_argument. The name proposed is even more
>> verbose than current one, it leads to the next suggestion: use
>> 'operator<<' to append arguments to command line object.
> 
> Agreed.  I'd rather call it 'add'.  And maybe also provide operator<<.
> Could the operator make things clearer?
> 
> cl.add("foo").add("bar").add(4);
> cl << "foo" << "bar" << 4;

FWIW, +1 for "add_argument".

// Johan