On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:13:07PM -0600, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
The "x" was to convey "extended," not "eXperimental."
I kinda liked the 'x' versions, but not enough to express a preference.
5. device_streambuf / device_stream
This is reasonably meaningful given the use of a Device and serves to distinguish the names from those in std.
They're hard to pronounce properly, though. I just realized that this is why I don't like them.
Yeah, it's too close to "dev ice cream" which is just silly :-)
But speaking of "buf/stream," how about using "buf" and "stream"? E.g.,
typedef stream<file> filestream; typedef buf<file> filebuf;
typedef stream<array> arraystream; typedef buf<array> arraybuf;
Not only are these better than the other choices, I think these are actually quite good names. My only reservation is that a streambuf doesn't necessarily do any buffering (that's true for std::streambufs, anyway, I assume it's the case for yours as well), so taking the "buf" part of the name "streambuf" emphasises the misleading part of the name, but that's not a big deal. jon