Howard Hinnant wrote:
On 29 Apr 2011, at 12:37, Joachim Faulhaber wrote:
Dear list,
this posting is addressed specifically to those people who are involved in the standardisation process for c++. As far as I know
Beman, Howard, Dave, Doug, ...
On occasion of the Boost.TypeTraits extension we were discussing names for operators and operator call traits. As an important aspect, naming consistency with the standard and across boost libraries has been discussed.
Unfortunately, you are a couple of months too late, the final version of the standard has been completed. You could submit a defect report, but I shouldn't
On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Christopher Jefferson wrote: think something would be renamed under a defect report, unless there was a good reason for doing so, and being compatible with boost probably isn't a good enough reason.
bit_and and friends have been in g++ since 2007, so it's really too late to
be changing the name now.
Sorry,
Chris
Agreed.
Howard
[snip]
// 20.8.7, bitwise operations: template <class T> struct bit_and; template <class T> struct bit_or; template <class T> struct bit_xor;
Since 20.8.7, bitwise operations are *new* in the standard and naming consistency would be great for users, do you think there is a chance that those 3 names can be changed to
bitwise_and, bitwise_or, bitwise_xor ?
As a matter of fact, 'bitand' and 'bitor' have been alternative tokens for & and | since at least C++98. I.e. still no "bitwise" in the name. [snip]
Best regards, Joachim
Best Regards, Gevorg