Re: [boost] [filesystem] Function name changes

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-05 03:04:50

Vladimir Prus wrote:

>> The term "filename extension" is well established. See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename_extension or google for "file
>> extension".
> 
> Oh, using wikipedia and number of google hits to establish naming
> sounds interesting -- you can some up with random API.
> Note that "file extension" has 12'000'000 hits, whereas "file suffix"
> has 2'000'000 hits, which does not seem to be on overwhelming difference.
> Also, I don't know how to get google to produce hits only relevant to
> names of API function in some libraries.

In fact, here's what 

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename_extension

has to say:

        A filename extension is a *suffix* to the name of a computer file

- Volodya