Re: [boost] C++ Futures

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-17 16:49:29

David Greene wrote:
> Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> 
>> need asynchronous method invocation, and I understand that Futures
>> are being proposed for C++0x.
> 
> Is there a paper on this somewhere?  It's the first I've heard of it.
> I'm very interested in futures and some of the proposed DARPA HPCS
> languages have them.  It would be nice if these things worked
> similarly. 

Things are still being researched, but so far we have

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2096.html

and

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2094.html#futures