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