At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:32:11 +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Barend Gehrels <barend@geodan.nl> wrote:
Imagine if everytime you had to call a real person instead of just their name you had to say "<name>, friend" or "<name>, daughter". That wouldn't be very nice would it?
I agree with you, those suffices are too much. Just an "s" is enough. I personally can live with plural namespaces if they are necessary. So the guidelines on the website (put into this thread by Joachim)
http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Naming_consistency
are clear, make sense, and are followed by most previous libraries. I see no reason for change.
I agree with this. Sorry but I missed the context of the original discussion -- is there a specific problem we're trying to solve by changing the way things are going? Or is it just because "it doesn't look nice"?
Mostly because things aren't going any one way, so in setting the way forward there's an opportunity to revisit old decisions and-bikesheds-ly y'rs, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com