Re: [boost] [futures] boost::futures

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-14 14:54:17

Frank Mori Hess wrote:
>
> I have to say I really am not a big fan of needless overloading of the 
> languages operators like logical || and &&.  Especially when you are 
> overloading them with functions that really don't correspond to the 
> original operators.  What if I want to overload || with a function that 
> actually does correspond to logical or, like
> 
> Future<bool> operator||(const Future<T> &a, const Future<U> &b);

This seems like a reasonable argument against these composition overloads.

- Michael Marcin