Re: [boost] adaptable_any vs any_with

[Douglas Gregor]

On Monday 01 September 2003 07:53 am, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
 I'm asking for voting for the new name of dynamic_any. Please, give you
 preference.
 Here is my discussion about the name with Kevlin Henney ( and empty
 prefix - Kevlin,  - me)

Between the two: adaptable_any is better, I think.

Because I like throwing wrenches: have you considered a very different name 
such as polymorphic or just poly. The idea is that we read:

  polyless_than_comparable, equality_comparable

as a type that is polymorphic over all less_than_comparable  
equality_comparable types.

And because I'm feeling silly and reading a book on lattice theory... it could 
also be named models_meet, as in a type that models the meet of the 
following concepts in the concept lattice. 

Doug
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[boost] adaptable_any vs any_with

[Alexander Nasonov]

I'm asking for voting for the new name of dynamic_any. Please, give you 
preference.
Here is my discussion about the name with Kevlin Henney ( and empty prefix 
- Kevlin,  - me)

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 Have you had any more thoughts on an alternative name? Something like
 adaptable_any or extensible_any?

I really don't like the current name and I don't like the fact that  
 namespace has different name.
If I understand meaning of the word, extensible_any is not a right name 
because when you extend operation list you narrow a set of supported types. 

Good point! reducible_any ;-)

Sometimes this set can be so narrow that I doubt about 'any' in name! 
adaptable_any is much better. I like it.

It seemed to be the best of the rest.

Another thought might be to take advantage of the way you might read
what is written. Instead of naming the operation list operation_list,
name it io_operations. Instead of dynamic_any, or even adaptable_any,
use the name any_with. This would give you any_withio_operations,
which reads as a perfectly accurate description in English.

Kevlin

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