Re: Re: [boost] Next revision of boost::thread

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 12:01:45

[2003-01-09] William E. Kempf wrote:

>> From: Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
>> The one place I would like to have such a thing it would have to be id().
>> 
>> I have one, very overused, place in my code where I have to iterate on a
>> list of objects, which have thread pointers to find the object given the
>> current thread. It would somewhat cleaner and easier to understand if I
>> could have a std::map<thread::ID,object*> instead.
>
>That doesn't necessarily speak for an ID type in addition to boost::thread. 
It only 
>adds another requirement that could be met by boost::thread itself.  Either
an 
>operator<(), knowing that the ordering is arbitrary, or follow the same
route as 
>std::type_info and include a before().  Thoughts?

Having an operator<() would work, but not be as convenient as an ID. In my
simple thread.ID -> object* sample I would have to change it to thread* ->
object* and add the dereference ops accordingly. So I would still prefer the
ID, it's just cleaner and easier to understand.

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