On 19/01/11 11:58, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mateusz@loskot.net> wrote:
On 19/01/11 05:51, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks adding the type of an identifier to the name is ugly? As in<identifier>_<type> (in this case `tuple_nmsp` or `tuple_lib`)?
There are libraries with 'lib' in name like libpng, libtiff or zlib, so there could be:
libspirit libgeometry libfilesystem ...
Right, but you don't have them in the namespace. Mostly I think the reason for having 'lib' as a prefix is mostly because of UNIX/Linux and GCC intepreting `-lfoo` to mean link in a library named `libfoo` for shorthand and for convention. I might see the need for that in a filesystem where you have to distinguish names because you don't typically have a namespace (although directories are there, which is another issue).
Right.
That doesn't make me like the 'lib' name myself.
Me neither.
Although cpp-netlib is there, I'm just not that creative to come up with an alternate name for it. :D
Take this thread as a warning and learn the lesson, otherwise you will have your users wining and complaining on the name in a few years ;-))) Cheers, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org