Re: [boost] [explore] Library Proposal: Container Streaming

Subject: Re: [boost] [explore] Library Proposal: Container Streaming
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-01 16:01:46

Jeffrey Faust wrote:
> Jeroen Habraken wrote:
>   
>> This reminds me of the repr() function in Python,
>> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#repr. Maybe
>> Boost.Represent would make sense as name for the project, as it shows
>> a representation of the data.
>>     
>
> That's a good idea.  I like it more than 'explore'.  Still, to me it
> sounds like such a big word for something so basic in use.  Unless
> you are extending it, there's literally no interface to the library
> other than operator<<.
>
> So I was thinking some more about a better name.  What do you think of
> Boost.Out?
>   
What's wrong with Boost.Repr?  Out doesn't seem to quite capture it.  
When I use operator<< to put something into a string, which I might 
later send out to the user, I don't think of it going out right then.  
Depends on what the stream is.  Repr captures what it does better, i.e. 
you get a representation of what the data is.

Patrick