[Background for those who don't know: a. when you write a book, the publisher sicks (or is it sics?) a copyeditor on your manuscript to clean up all the bad grammar, stylistic fauxes pas, and so on. To reject a change you mark it with "stet". b. Boost decided long ago, for reasons I don't recall, on a convention of writing library names with a period after Boost, as in: Boost.Python ] When the copyeditor went over the manuscript for C++ Template Metaprogramming, she very consistently took out the periods in library names like Boost.Python, Boost.Bind, etc. Her changes didn't seem to hurt the book seriously so rather than laboriously "stet" them all, I just let it go. I'm writing a foreword for Bjorn's book soon, so he sent me his manuscript. Bjorn consistently uses a different notation. I thought it made sense for us to get our story straight on how these names will be represented in publications. These were my ideas: - The names will be set in roman type - The library name will be capitalized - The period will only be used when the library name is not followed by the word "library": The great thing about Boost.Bind is that you can use it with member functions and function objects. The Boost Bind library was written by Peter Dimov. - The word "library" is not part of the library name and is therefore lowercased. Among the moderators and authors everyone agreed with the ideas, except that there was some discussion of whether and how the dot should be used. Some argued for never using the dot; some for always using it. An informal -1,0,1 poll was inconclusive: -1 votes +1 votes -------- -------- Never | 1 3 Always Except Before Library | 2 3 Always | 1 2 We all thought it would be a good idea to get feedback from the whole Boost community, **but I don't want this to suck up a lot of list bandwidth**, so I'm going to close voting at the end of 9/16 (my time). If you care how this comes out, please post your -1,0,+1 votes on the three options above. Please copy this part of the message into your reply and vote there: Never: Always Except Before Library: Always: This is a seemingly trivial issue that hardly deserves as much attention as we've already given it, so I'm crossing my fingers that we won't enter a bike shed with it ;-) Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com