Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-22 04:54:57

Marcus 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.
> 

Oops, your right.  'back' would be a lot better, given the c++ precedent
(std::list).

> (We're getting dangerously close to the bike-shed... :)
> 

Sorry, I just wanted to try and step up to Beman's challenge:

> 
> If you have a better set of names, why don't you suggest them?
> 
> --Beman

-- John