"Andreas Huber" <ah2003@gmx.net> wrote in message news:loom.20040426T101217-326@post.gmane.org...
Robert Ramey wrote:
Message: 11 Andreas Huber wrote:
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I used save/load consistently specifically to distinguish from read/write which seemed to me too suggestive of persistence, files and streams.
Streams have nothing to do with persistence and files, do they? As I mentioned below an archive *is* in some way a stream, so read/write seems more appropriate, especially since standard stream classes also use this terminology. Save/load seems *much* closer to persistence and files than read/write is.
3. archive naming: The word archive also seems to be associated with persistence. I think serializer would much better describe the functionality. Another option I could live with is serialization_stream (I slightly disagree with the assertion in archives.html that an archive as modelled by this library is not a stream. It might not be what C++ folks traditionally understand a stream is but to me it definitely is a more general stream, i.e. a stream of objects/things/whatever).
Archive is perhaps a little too suggestive. I borrowed from MFC. Making changes would have a huge ripple effect through code, file names, namepace names and documentation. I don't find any proposals for alternate naming sufficiently compelling to justify this.
Global search/replace is your friend ;-). Seriously, if I'm the only one with these concerns I rest my case now and will happily use your library as is.
From Merriam Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: 1ar·chive Pronunciation: 'är-"kIv Function: noun Etymology: French & Latin; French, from Latin archivum, from Greek archeion government house (in plural, official documents), from archE rule, government -- more at ARCH- : a place in which public records or historical documents are preserved; also : the material preserved -- often used in plural and Main Entry: 2archive Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): ar·chived; ar·chiv·ing : to file or collect (as records or documents) in or as if in an archive IMO Archive is about as good a name as we'll get. Jeff F