26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
11:06 p.m.
Phil Richards <news@derived-software.ltd.uk> writes:
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? :-)
Exploring the filesystem is, IMO, conceptually different from doing I/O. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com