Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost Extended Floating-Point

Subject: Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost Extended Floating-Point
From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-01 17:49:27

> Well said.
> 
> And allow me to throw out a big thanks to everyone who contributed.
> 
> We need to wrap this one up for the weekend.
> 
> 
> 	* I believe we received more positive feedback for "a variation of float...", neither real nor decimal.
> 	* The consensus seems to be that the namespace mp is terse and confusing.
> 	* Some like the trailing underscore. Most, however, do not favor it.
> Let's go with this.
> 
> namespace boost
> {
>   namespace multiprecision
>   {
>     class floating { };
>   }
> }
> 
> So this is the last call for anyone who can't live with it.
> After this weekend or next, I expect to have refactored the e_float code accordingly.

+1