Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
Hi Paul,
I haven't looked at the library, but I'd like to raise a minor point. I think the name "shmem" is bad as it doesn't tell you what the library is about - most Boost libraries have more descriptive names. "Shmem" sounds to me like a letter of the Hebrew alphabet rather than the name of a Boost library. Couldn't it be called "shared_memory" or something similar instead?
Suggestion are welcome. There are other libraries with Shmem name (for example, for programming multiprocessor shared memory issues), so I'm not the only one with bad taste ;-)
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Well, shared_memory is the obvious choice, or shared_mem perhaps. Both are descriptive and simple - I don't think you have to be too adventurous when it comes to naming libraries :-) Paul