[boost] Re: Boost.Threads: Do we need all those mutexes?

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-08 08:51:33

On Jul 8, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:

> One might argue that a lock is naturally moveable...

It is.

>  but I think that we
> should constrain ourselves to (fixing) the current noncopyable 
> scoped_lock
> idiom.

Agreed.  I don't particularly want to tackle truly moving locks until I 
have an rvalue-reference to do it with.  The auto_ptr-like hacks are 
downright demotivating. ;-(

-Howard