Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-22 04:58:24

Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> John Femiani wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The way I'm used to name lists (from Haskell and others), is that a
> list of x has a head of type x and a tail of type 'list of x'.
> 
> Your version would turn that around, which would confuse me.
> 
> I have no problem in seeing leaf() as the last element in the path 
> (which is a list of names) and it's short and sweet. If one can accept 
> that the path is a different concept from the file entry, this works 
> very well.
> 
> I think there are valid arguments for and against, and I'd hate to have 
> this switched at this moment, when it's been used for quite a while by 
> many apps. There are too many things changing from one boost release to 
> another already, so you'd better make a good argument and have a clear 
> concensus. (We're getting dangerously close to the bike-shed... :)
> 
> My 0.02€.
> 
> Cheers,
> /Marcus
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I also assumed leaf -> head and branch_path -> tail :-)

Maybe we should just drop the matter and live with branch_path and leaf.
(Even if I really would prefer branch_path -> parent_directory_path)

--Johan