Re: [boost] date_time naming

2003-09-03 Thread Jeff Garland
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 Paul Bristow wrote > Although I an growing to like date_time, I have to agree that some names are > less than ideal. I found kday less than intuitive. This name actually comes from Calendrical Calculations. But I'm not stuck on it if you you have other suggestions. > Docu

Re: [boost] date_time naming

2003-09-03 Thread Jeff Garland
> > My first choice was 'time'. However, as I recall I ran into some > > nasty macros that interfered with that name, sigh. time_point would be > > another possibility, but it is longer. I'm certainly open to suggestions... > Disable the macros where neccessary? You can do it temporarily an

RE: [boost] date_time naming

2003-09-03 Thread Paul A. Bristow
AIL PROTECTED] | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Abrahams | Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:50 PM | To: boost | Subject: [boost] date_time naming | | | | I'm just getting started with the date_time library, and I think I'm | go

Re: [boost] date_time naming

2003-09-03 Thread Jeff Garland
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:50:09 -0400, David Abrahams wrote > I'm just getting started with the date_time library, and I think I'm > gonna like it. Let's hope so! > I have some quibbles with the naming choices though > (shocking! me of all people!) For example, why is the nested > namespace calle

RE: [boost] date_time naming

2003-09-02 Thread Hurd, Matthew
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [boost] date_time naming > > I'm just getting started with the date_time library, and I > think I'm gonna like it. I have some quibbles with the > naming choices though (shocking! me of all people!) For

[boost] date_time naming

2003-09-02 Thread David Abrahams
I'm just getting started with the date_time library, and I think I'm gonna like it. I have some quibbles with the naming choices though (shocking! me of all people!) For example, why is the nested namespace called posix_time instead of, simply, posix? Once you're in a date_time context it seems