Re: [boost] Interest in a flyweight library?

On 7/1/06, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:

I have a problem with these names -- Boost.intern sounds like a developer that should be working on an SOC project. 'Interned' sounds like what happens when someone dies and is buried -- not too pleasant. Thanks for phrasing what I was thinking better than I had managed to.

I have never heard of intern, but recognize flyweight from the GoF book. I don't think it would be confused as something else, since a library that only offered representation sharing would probably be called copy_on_write or cow_ptr or similar. Boost.Flyweight / boost::flyweights / boost::flyweight<T> sounds good to me. ~ Scott McMurray