19 May
2008
19 May
'08
8:37 p.m.
I was just reviewing the filesystem docs and came across "leaf()". I'm sure this isn't the first time I've seen it, but this time I picked up a little semantic dissonance. Normally we think of "leaf" in the context of a tree as being a thing with no children. An interior node like a directory that has files or other directories in it is usually not called a "leaf." I wonder if this is the best possible name? Is there a precedent we can draw on in some other language/library? In python, it's os.path.basename(p). Perl, php, and the posix basename command seem to do something similar. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com