On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Christopher Jefferson 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 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
We have found that functors on bitwise operators
// 20.8.7, bitwise operations: template <class T> struct bit_and; template <class T> struct bit_or; template <class T> struct bit_xor;
are new in the upcoming standard and are named using prefix
bit_
In contrast to that, within boost, entities referring to bitwise operators are almost consistently named using prefix
bitwise_
This is done specifically in Boost.Proto but also Boost.MPI (boost/mpi/operations.hpp).
bitwise_and, bitwise_or, bitwise_xor
are declared and used at 95 lines in Boost Libraries currently.
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 ?
If so, is there anything that can be done to help the process. I'd volunteer to write a paper, if necessary.
This might be a tiny issue, but since operators are at the core of any language, a consistent naming around them might be of great value on the long run.
Best regards, Joachim
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