Re: [boost] namespace boost?

Subject: Re: [boost] namespace boost?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-18 20:59:35

At Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:29:06 +0100,
Robert Kawulak wrote:
> 
> > From: Barend Gehrels
> > The library name is normally (but not always) singular, e.g.
> > Boost.Tuple, which is IMO more logical than Boost.Tuples. The folder
> > name equals the library name. The library often contains a class named
> > as the library, e.g. tuple, and the namespace therefore or for other
> > reasons is something different, here tuples, so this requirement is
> > difficult to meet.
> 
> Even I am not convinced to the idea myself, but here it is: in cases
> like Boost.Tuple call the folder 'tuple_lib' and the namespace
> 'boost::tuple_lib'. This fixes the problem with ambiguous names and
> looks not worse than 'tuples'.

Meh; such names get needlessly long, IMO.

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