Dear list, this posting is addressed specifically to those people who are involved in the standardisation process for c++. As far as I know Beman, Howard, Dave, Doug, ... On occasion of the Boost.TypeTraits extension we were discussing names for operators and operator call traits. As an important aspect, naming consistency with the standard and across boost libraries has been discussed. We have found that functors on bitwise operators // 20.8.7, bitwise operations: template <class T> struct bit_and; template <class T> struct bit_or; template <class T> struct bit_xor; are new in the upcoming standard and are named using prefix bit_ In contrast to that, within boost, entities referring to bitwise operators are almost consistently named using prefix bitwise_ This is done specifically in Boost.Proto but also Boost.MPI (boost/mpi/operations.hpp). bitwise_and, bitwise_or, bitwise_xor are declared and used at 95 lines in Boost Libraries currently. Since 20.8.7, bitwise operations are *new* in the standard and naming consistency would be great for users, do you think there is a chance that those 3 names can be changed to bitwise_and, bitwise_or, bitwise_xor ? If so, is there anything that can be done to help the process. I'd volunteer to write a paper, if necessary. This might be a tiny issue, but since operators are at the core of any language, a consistent naming around them might be of great value on the long run. Best regards, Joachim -- Interval Container Library [Boost.Icl] http://www.joachim-faulhaber.de