From: Thorsten Ottosen [mailto:nesotto@cs.auc.dk]

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* Some names work "best" in plural (like signals, type_traits, iterators, operators); this is of course very much IMHO.

are they the names of namespaces?

Signals is (and type_traits has such a namespace [albeit only in detail]), the others are the library names (living in the root boost:: namespace).

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* Just "file" seems a bit restrictive to me, but when I think about the namespace "files" I read "files 'n other related stuff, too".

then maybe it should be namespace io? Just like a big namespace for algorithms, io could hold file handling, zip streams, formatters etc.

Yes, that's definitely an interesting option. Bjorn