Re: [boost] [gsoc][RFC] Pointer Plus Bits

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc][RFC] Pointer Plus Bits
From: Brian Bartman (bbartmanboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-27 11:29:18

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Brian Bartman wrote:
> >
> > As it is currently bitfield_tuple is in the boost namespace
>
> Why is that?
>

Not really sure why.
But it will be shortly within the bitfields namespace.

>
> > and extra parts external to the class are located within
> > the bitfields namespace.
>
> Presumably, bitfield_tuple is defined in the your nested namespace and
> brought into the boost namespace with a using declaration.  (I haven't
> looked.)
>
> > One of the other names which came up for this data structure
> > was bit_tuple does that sound any better?
>
> I don't think that's good.  It isn't a tuple of bits, but rather of
> arbitrarily grouped bits.  Hence "bit_field_tuple" is the better name.
>
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Brian Bartman