Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-23 03:52:22

Volodya wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
[snip]
> > It's easy enough to leave them deprecated, or even officially
removed,
> > but available for backward-compatibility.
> 
> Did you read all the messages in this thread? If you want to rename
'leaf'
> to 'basename',
> you cannot do that without breaking backward compatibility (no matter
if
> you leave 'leaf'
> around as deprecated).
> 

Is there anything wrong with back()? Can we add back() and deprecate
(not remove, just deprecate) leaf()?

-- John