Re: [boost] namespace boost?

Subject: Re: [boost] namespace boost?
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-19 03:32:11

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Barend Gehrels <barend_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Imagine if everytime you had to call a real person instead of just
>> their name you had to say "<name>, friend" or "<name>, daughter". That
>> wouldn't be very nice would it?
>>
> I agree with you, those suffices are too much. Just an "s" is enough. I
> personally can live with plural namespaces if they are necessary. So the
> guidelines on the website (put into this thread by Joachim)
>
> http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Naming_consistency
>
> are clear, make sense, and are followed by most previous libraries. I see no
> reason for change.
>

I agree with this. Sorry but I missed the context of the original
discussion -- is there a specific problem we're trying to solve by
changing the way things are going? Or is it just because "it doesn't
look nice"?

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Dean Michael Berris
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