Re: [boost] Namespace for a Boost Hashing Library

On 09/05/10 17:19, Scott McMurray wrote:

I initially used boost::hash, forgetting that the unordered containers have already claimed that name. A number of alternatives have been proposed, so I hoped to get some thoughts from the wider community.

The intention for the library is to provide concepts and some implementations for checksums (like CRC32), plain hash functions (for hash tables), and cryptographic hash functions (like MD5 or SHA-256).

Some possibilities:

- boost::hashes Following the usual boost method of a plural namespace when a class exists.

I've always thought plurals were better for namespaces anyway, so I like boost::hashes. John Bytheway