Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-22 19:56:25

on Wed May 21 2008, "Zach Laine" <whatwasthataddress-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:19 AM, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> [snip]
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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. 

I think that proves my point.  On a Unix system "/usr" is never a leaf
in the filesystem.  Boost.Filesystem can call it a leaf, though.

> In short, I like "leaf()".

I don't understand why.

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Dave Abrahams
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