Larry Evans wrote:
On 07/07/2005 11:50 PM, Jonathan Turkanis wrote: [snip]
inconsistent header names: [snip] As you can see, some contain "_filter" and some don't, and it all depends on whether the header contains more than one component, which can be hard to remember.
It would be nice if a header file name could end in "_+.hpp" where the "+" is meant to suggest "more than one component".
I think some filesystems don't allow + in file names; that's why c++boost.gif was renamed.
Maybe just "_" would be close enough, so that a header named:
counter_.hpp
would indicate it contains components with names starting with "counter_" or components having something to do with a counter.
Is that any better?
I generally try to avoid trailling underscores, since they look funny to me. Also, I'm not sure that when a header contains more than one component, their names only differ at the end. Using a trailing _ also forces people to remember whether a header contains more than one component, which is something I wanted to avoid. For example, newline.hpp contains newline_filter and newline_checker. My guess is that newline_filter will be used much more frequently, and some people may not even relaize that there is another filter defined in the same header. Jonathan