Jeffrey Faust wrote:
Jeroen Habraken wrote:
This reminds me of the repr() function in Python, http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#repr. Maybe Boost.Represent would make sense as name for the project, as it shows a representation of the data.
That's a good idea. I like it more than 'explore'. Still, to me it sounds like such a big word for something so basic in use. Unless you are extending it, there's literally no interface to the library other than operator<<.
So I was thinking some more about a better name. What do you think of Boost.Out?
What's wrong with Boost.Repr? Out doesn't seem to quite capture it. When I use operator<< to put something into a string, which I might later send out to the user, I don't think of it going out right then. Depends on what the stream is. Repr captures what it does better, i.e. you get a representation of what the data is. Patrick