Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 03:59 PM 8/5/2003, David Abrahams wrote: > > > >Why are we using such a cryptic namespace name? I mean, I can > >understand wanting to abbreviate "template_metaprogramming", but > >"filesystem" doesn't seem too bad and you could use "filesys"; people > >will use namespace aliases anyway. > > The Filesystem Library is in namespace boost::filesystem. > > A namespace alias of fs:: is used in an example on one of the doc > pages, and in some of the test and implementation code. Is that a > concern?
Yes! People will be very confused, IMO. I clearly was. > > Sorry to complain, but "fs" has > >been rubbing me the wrong way since I started using it. > > Why are you using it then? I just double checked, and it doesn't > appear in any of the filesystem headers. Ah, I haven't compiled anything yet. ;-> -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
