Re: [boost] Filesystem: basename

[Beman Dawes]

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. It would not be 
beneficial to use a different naming scheme for one of the decomposition 
function names, IMO.

--Beman

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[boost] Filesystem: basename

[David Abrahams]

I think this is a badly-chosen name.  Both POSIX and Python have a
basename function which does roughly what our leaf() function does.

Python:

>>> import os.path
>>> help(os.path.basename)
Help on function basename:

basename(p)
Returns the final component of a pathname

>>> os.path.basename('foo/bar.baz')
'bar.baz'


POSIX:

$ info basename

`basename': Strip directory and suffix from a file name
===

   `basename' removes any leading directory components from NAME.
Synopsis:

 basename NAME [SUFFIX]

   If SUFFIX is specified and is identical to the end of NAME, it is
removed from NAME as well.  `basename' prints the result on standard
output.

$ basename 'foo/bar.baz'
bar.baz

$ basename 'foo/bar.baz' .baz
bar


I don't think we should use creative naming in cases like this one.

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

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