Re: [boost] [algorithm] aesthetic question about cxx11

Subject: Re: [boost] [algorithm] aesthetic question about cxx11
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-27 10:16:31

Marshall Clow wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:50 AM, lcaminiti wrote:
>
> > I have an aesthetic question. Boost.Algorithm puts C++11
> > algorithms like all_of into a directory
> > boost/algorithm/cxx11. Would the directory name
> > boost/algorithm/cpp11 be preferred?
> >
> > I think for file names .cpp and .hpp are Boost choice over
> > .cxx and .hxx. But for directory names instead cxx11 is Boost
> > choice over cpp11? Similarly, shall macros that refer to
> > C++11 be named BOOST_..._CPP11_... or BOOST_..._CXX11_...?

> Just to let you know, the directory boost/algorithm/cxx11 has
> not been a part of any boost release yet (it will be part
> of1.50), so changing it should not break any existing code.
>
> As to using cxx11 vs cpp11, I don't really have a preference.

As Lorenzo notes, the suffixes suggest that the directory names should use "cpp", too, but there is a difference.  In "cxx11", the "cxx" is in reference to a standard version, rather than to the language itself, so a distinction might be appropriate.

I, too, don't really have a preference.  However, the directories and corresponding macros should use p/P or x/X consistently.

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