Talk:Vector (STL)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus to move. JPG-GR (talk) 18:45, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Maybe std::vector would be a better title - it's more precise, and doesn't require any disambiguation. --Zundark 15:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I actually agree with this. std::vector is much more appropriate.Dlother (talk) 18:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've now listed it at Wikipedia:Requested moves, so we'll see what happens. (I think it could be moved without admin intervention, but I'm doing it this way to encourage discussion.) --Zundark (talk) 11:26, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I am concerned that the WP software will attempt to read std, or std: as a namespace; could we have some reassurance on that? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

There's not usually a problem with colons in an article name - the software doesn't interpret the preceding string as a namespace or interwiki prefix unless it has been defined as such. So, for example, the software treats Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors as being in the article namespace. --Zundark (talk) 13:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't agree. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a reference manual. I understand that other languages provide very similar constructs. In my opinion, this page should be primarily about this construct and its implementation, rather than about the particular syntax of C++. (I'm not going to be militant about this; just recording my opinions since you asked for discussion.) Sam Staton (talk) 13:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Ahh. I see this is discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject C++#Wikipedia is not a programming manual. Guideline WP:NOT#MANUAL is relevant. Changing the name to std::vector brings this one step further to a reference manual (if we're not there already). Sam Staton (talk) 14:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose per the general naming conventions, "article naming should prefer what the greatest number of English speakers would most easily recognize" and "the names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors, and for a general audience over specialists." The proposed title reads like something only familiar to a reader already experienced in the subject. Also though, I do not think "(STL)" is a good disambiguator, for the same reasons. Should be Vector (Standard Template Library) or similar. Horsesforcorses (talk) 11:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.