Re: [boost] [futures] boost::futures

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-14 15:05:52

Frank Mori Hess wrote:

> I have to say I really am not a big fan of needless 
> overloading of the languages operators like logical || and 
> &&.  Especially when you are overloading them with functions 
> that really don't correspond to the original operators.  What 
> if I want to overload || with a function that actually does 
> correspond to logical or, like
> 
> Future<bool> operator||(const Future<T> &a, const Future<U> &b);

1. Why do you would do that? Do you have a use case?
2. If you really have to do that, simply do not include the header(s)
defining the operators.

Regards Hartmut