On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:22:00 +1100, Thorsten Ottosen wrote: [on the name of the filesystem namespace]
then maybe it should be namespace io? Just like a big namespace for algorithms, io could hold file handling, zip streams, formatters etc.
Much as I said I didn't really care before, this one feels like it is the right sort of area. It's my favourite of the ones I've seen so far, and is much better than anything I could come up with. I think most people would understand "io" as an abbreviation with no real potential for confusion. (And if they are confused, I hate to think what they will think an "iostream" is.) If the stuff ever made it into the standard, then you'd get "std::io" which would make ex-C programmers happy too. So, do we move filesystem to boost::io::filesystem? :-) phil -- change name before "@" to "phil" for email