Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost Extended Floating-Point

on Wed Aug 31 2011, "Simonson, Lucanus J" <lucanus.j.simonson-AT-intel.com> wrote:

float_ in no way intuitively means multiprecision floating point data type.

Intuitively, I would expect float_ in a boost library would mean a type that wraps a literal floating point value in a type for metaprogramming and might be declared something like:

template <float f> float_ : float_c<f>;

float_ in no way intuitively means that, either. We have namespaces because/so-that the same name can have different meanings depending on context. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com