On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 07:52:18PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 31/07/17 19:46 -0400, tbsaunde+...@tbsaunde.org wrote:
> > I've been saying I'd do this for a long time, but I'm finally getting to
> > importing the C++98 compatable unique_ptr class Pedro wrote for gdb a while
> > back.  I believe the gtl namespace also comes from Pedro, but GNU template
> > library seems as reasonable as any other name I can come up with.
> 
> If it's inspired by "STL" then can we call it something else?
> 
> std::unique_ptr is not part of the STL, because the STL is a library
> of containers and algorithms from the 1990s. std::unique_ptr is
> something much newer that doesn't originate in the STL.

ok then I forgot or never knew that sorry.  It *is* std::unique_ptr in
C++11 or newer, so I think it would be odd to name it something else.

> STL != C++ Standard Library

Will try to remember that, sorry.

> If we want a namespace for GNU utilities, what's wrong with "gnu"?

I'm fine with s/gtl/gnu/g if that's what people want.

Trev

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