edam-2 wrote:
Hi there,
I just wanted to hear the boost community's thoughts on abbreviating boost's namespaces. [...] I wondered if there would be any interest in a boost abbreviations header that, if included, would provide abbreviated names for boost's namespaces. Something along the lines of a boost/abrv.hpp:
// this is an incomplete example namespace bst = boost; namespace boost { namespace gd = gregorian; namespace pt = posix_time; namespace dt = date_time; } [...]
I think that using namespace aliases is just fine, but only in the context of a particular program, where you are in control of possible name clashes. Providing a general purpose abbreviation does not make sense precisely because names are chosen that long to avoid clashes!! For instance, if you google for "namespace bst": http://tinyurl.com/595596 you get two uses of this namespace name for things other than aliasing boost.
What I'm proposing sounds terrible, I know, but if you consider that users would "opt-in" to this by including the abbreviations header (meaning it wouldn't affect existing users), I wondered if there would be any merit in it? I'm expecting a lot disapproval to this idea, but I thought I'd ask what people think anyway. Please don't shoot me down too much -- this is my first post to the boost mailing list! :o)
I hope you'll get by through this post :) Seriously, don't hesitate to keep contributing to the list. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Boost-namespace-abreviations-tp20725992p20726147.html Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.