on Fri Sep 14 2012, Oliver Kowalke <oliver.kowalke-AT-gmx.de> wrote:
'The library is given a name that describes the contents of the
Cryptic abbreviations are strongly discouraged. Following the practice of the C++ Standard Library, names are usually singular rather than plural. For example, a library dealing with file systems might chose
Am 14.09.2012 16:55, schrieb Eric Niebler: library. the
name "filesystem", but not "filesystems", "fs" or "nicecode".'
what was the reason to force 'filesystem' instead of 'fs'?
Dollars to donuts nobody "forced" it; Beman merely had the good design sense to spell the word out rather than using a cryptic abbreviation.
I've ctx already renamed to context in boost-trunk The STL namespace is 'std' instead of 'standard' - therefore I thought it's accepted to do it likewise.