Re: [boost] [filesystem] Function name changes

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-04 19:16:20

Beman wrote:
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> 
> "stem" is an interesting suggestion. For "word stem", 
> Wikipedia says "In linguistics, a stem (sometimes also theme) 
> is the part of a word that is common to all its inflected 
> variants." That pretty much describes the basename concept.
> 
> --Beman
> 

What if the 'replace_extension' (aka 'change_extension') function just
took an empy string as a default second argument? Isn't that the same as
basename? Then you don't need 'base_name' or 'stem' at all.  Also
extension/change_extension should not be a member function since they
should be defined in a separate header so that people who don't believe
in extensions don't have to include them.

-- John Femiani