On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Peter Dimov wrote:
Douglas Paul Gregor wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Stefan Slapeta wrote:
Pavol Droba wrote:
It is not really reasonable to await from a user to always type boost::algorithm::string::trim.
Maybe it could help a little bit to replace 'algorithm' by 'algo' and 'string' by 'str'.
IMHO, also shorter namespaces like 'boost::filesystem' have the problem of beeing too long to be used on every access. Long typenames like boost::filesystem::directory_iterator have a very high capability to make the code unreadable very quickly.
What's wrong with
namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
?
I would turn the question around and ask what's wrong with boost::fs (and when I see boost I think std). I've never understood the rationale behind long namespace names. Yes, I can alias filesystem to fs myself. But when all of your users alias filesystem to fs, and you find yourself doing the same in documentation, examples, tests, and in your own code, then perhaps it should have been named fs in the first place.
I do all sorts of things in non-header source files that I would not dare do in headers, and creating a name like "fs" is one of them :) Doug