Re: [boost] [filesystem] "leaf"

29 May 2008

      Beman Dawes wrote:
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...An
alternative set I'd be comfortable with would be tail() for the current 
leaf() and head_path() for the current branch_path().
Hum... After sending that, I read Johan Råde's "parent" suggestion.

I really like parent_path() for the current branch_path().

That leaves leaf(). tail() is arguably slightly better, but not by a 
lot. Other possibilities:

      leaf()             // cryptic
      tail()             // slightly better
      right()            // cryptic
      rightmost()        // better
      rightmost_name()   // very explicit, but longish

--Beman

PS: In any event, the library will retain the old names as synonyms, so 
no existing code will break. Semantics remain unchanged.