On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Michael Caisse <boost@objectmodelingdesigns.com> wrote:
I don't think the point being made is that there are not different endian formats on networks but that the term "network byte order" actually means something. It is not a wishful or ambiguous description it is actually a real term with real meaning. Thanks to the Berkeley API that many of us grew up with "host to network" also has real meaning.
Yup.
I'm not suggesting that the term "network" should even appear in an endian library. I would prefer the term to only exist in some domain specific namespace; however, ignoring well over 20-years of terminology history isn't going to make things clearer in the interface.
+1 for not including "network" in the interface to avoid future discussions such as these. Jon