Subject: Re: [boost] Alternative names to Boost.Fit
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-03-02 12:09:44
>
> I'm not sure what the "N" in "FN" is, so I don't see that as a good
> choice.
A lot of times people abbreviate function as fn.
> >Names like Boost.FP or Boost.FPL
> >could imply that it provides full functional constructs whereas
> >Boost.Fit does not
> >and is mainly focused on functions.
>
> I agree that those are not good.
>
> Boost.Fun would be a fun name and arguably fits (pun intended).
>
True.
>
> Boost.Futil :-)
>
> The name doesn't actually need to be short, so Boost.Function Utilities
> would be fine. The corresponding namespace name would be long, too, but
> namespace aliases, using directives, and using declarations can mitigate
> that.
>
However, there is not an easy way alias the macros. So
`BOOST_FIT_STATIC_LAMBDA_FUNCTION` would become
`BOOST_FUNCTION_UTILITIES_STATIC_LAMBDA_FUNCTION`, which is getting too
long.
I could support ZLang[1] to allow the user to namespace macros, however, I
don't think that is widely used.
Alternatively, I wonder if its possible to use FunctionUtilities as the
library name, but use 'fu' as the namespace name.
Paul
[1]: https://github.com/pfultz2/ZLang