Re: [boost] Comments about N2320

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-01 17:49:01

Michael Caisse:

> I was hoping somebody else would ask so that I didn't seem like the only
> uninformed... but since I have not seen the questions yet: Why not branch
> C and C++ further? Why try to find a solution that works well for both
> languages?

There are two main reasons, one, because a significant portion of the 
community doesn't want or need such branching, and two, because the C 
runtime library is (both de facto and de jure) part of C++. So a "C++ 
cancelation" that doesn't cancel the C blocking waits would be severely 
limited in practice, unless the C++ library is revamped to offer pure C++ 
equivalents to all blocking C functions. (It is still much better than 
nothing, though.)