Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-29 15:08:59

Beman Dawes wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:

[snip]

> That leaves leaf(). tail() is arguably slightly better, but not by a 
> lot. Other possibilities:
> 
>       leaf()             // cryptic
>       tail()             // slightly better
>       right()            // cryptic
>       rightmost()        // better
>       rightmost_name()   // very explicit, but longish
> 

In functional programming you often build a list by appending
one element at a time. The word head is then used to refer to
the last added element, and tail to the rest of the list.
This suggests that the leaf is the head, not the tail.
Since different people have different intuition about
what is the head and what is the tail, I think the terms
head and tail should not be used in this context.

Here are two other possible alternatives to leaf:

        name()
        own_name()

--Johan