Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 11:32 AM 8/6/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>  >
>  >I think this is a badly-chosen name.  Both POSIX and Python have a
>  >basename function which does roughly what our leaf() function does.
>  >
>  > ...
>  >
>  >I don't think we should use creative naming in cases like this one.
>
> The naming scheme based the root/branch/leaf tree metaphor was
> carefully worked out and reviewed over a long period of time. 

My argument here is only against basename.


-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

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