Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-21 09:34:22

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:19 AM, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Paths don't have leaves.  They have beginnings, endings, and middles.
> They are linear.

This sheds their context.  The linear sequence does not exist in a
vacuum.  It is a sequence of nodes that defines a path through a
filesystem tree.  When I think of a filesystem, I think of it as (a)
root node(s), interior nodes, and leaf nodes.  The fact that I'm only
looking at a subset of them when dealing with a given path does not
change what kind of node each is conceptually.  In short, I like
"leaf()".

Zach