On 2/20/07, Matthias Schabel <boost@schabel-family.org> wrote:
bimap<X,Y> bm; bm.left // --> map<X,Y> : X first, Y second bm.right // --> map<Y,X> : Y first, X second
You may want to consider the nomenclature "forward" and "reverse" - for directories, this is the standard way of referring to, for example, look-up of a telephone number from a name and look-up of a name from a telephone number, respectively. Reverse also indicates that the order of the template arguments are reversed in that case relative to the order in which they are declared.
Yes, it can be considered. Joaquin in his original bimap use to/from, that was another possibility. The good thing about left/right is that it can be used in the naming of the relation too. So we keep the number of new words to learn. Other strong point is that left and right are smaller than forward and reverse. But again, the idea is to use words that express the symmetry of the bidirectional mapping. The left and right views are equally important. Regards Matias