Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-21 13:54:20

> 
> Would the term "pruned_leaf" be an acceptable compromise?  
> The "pruned_" prefix would imply the "context" you mentioned 
> above as well as "subset of them" [where them is nodes] 
> mengioned above.  In the case that the node was an actual 
> leaf (e.g. an actual file) then the "size of the pruning" 
> would be just 0, where "size of pruning" is the distance to 
> an actual leaf (where actual leaf means the same as leaf node 
> in this quote:
> 

How about deprecating branch_path and using 'head', and deprecating
'leaf' in favor of 'tail'? This replaces tree terms with list terms,
since a path is a list.

--John