Re: [boost] [boost thread rework] New version uploaded to BoostVault

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-02 17:57:07

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:

>> On second thought, a non-void return doesn't make sense; what could
>> it return when call_once is called a second time?
>
> The same thing as the first time.

Things like auto_ptr aside, you'd need to templatize the once_flag on the 
return type then, since the first time value needs to be stored somewhere. 
Is this worth the hassle?