Re: [boost] Re: Sockets - what's the latest?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-14 12:12:04

Brian Gray wrote:
>
> At the very end of it, network programmers should be using a
> callback-driven interface and not have to worry about multiplexing at
> all, but I agree that for now a third layer should be deferred until
> the basic groundwork has been laid out.

Sometimes it pays to design the highest level first, and then ask: what
lower level components do we need to get here?

Of course this only works if the highest level is conceptually simple, only
its implementation complicated.