On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Peter Dimov
Beman Dawes wrote:
The current names I'm least comfortable with are the conversion function names in the endian sub-namespace:
big_to_native big_to_native_inplace native_to_big native_to_big_inplace little_to_native little_to_native_inplace native_to_little native_to_little_inplace conditional_reverse conditional_reverse_inplace
These are quite explicit, but are a bit too long and awkward for my taste. I'd be willing to change these names if someone can come up with replacements that are shorter and less awkward, but still reasonable explicit.
You can consider 'native' to be implicit and use
from_big from_big_inplace to_big to_big_inplace from_little from_little_inplace to_little to_little_inplace
although I, personally, am not sure whether this is an improvement.
Those are a nice set of alternatives, but like you I'm not sure if they are an improvement. Let's see what others think. Thanks, --Beman