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Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Summary of discussion #1
From: Vicente Botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-04 09:58:38


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Summary of discussion #1

>
> Scott McMurray wrote:
>> On 4 June 2010 09:20, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> >
>> > "endian_pack" doesn't suggest the class' actual purpose
>>
>> I'd guess that pack was chosen thinking of the verb, like the perl
>> function pack: <http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pack.html>.
>
> Perhaps, but while function names are rightly verbs, type names should be nouns.

So the noum shoud be?

Vicente


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