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?
> 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.
--Beman
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