[boost] Re: RFC: Multithreading design constraints

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-06 07:03:15

Jeremy,

>As for implementing a version of the library in terms separate from
the pthreads API: the C++ function overloading mechanism is wonderful
at handling this sort of this.
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Why not down the iostreams route, and allow the objects contructors to be
overloaded for native types (in  the way the fstreams can sometimes be
constructed from platform specific file handles).

- John.