Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-21 09:44:45

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On Wednesday 21 May 2008 09:34 am, Zach Laine wrote:
> 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()".

My impression from earlier posts, and the path decomposition table in the 
docs, is that leaf is a bad name because it can return an interior node in 
the filesystem.
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