Re: [boost] [futures] Future Containers?

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-20 09:32:44

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On Monday 19 May 2008 22:26 pm, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> My bad. I was thinking more about the "validity" of default
> constructed futures that don't have an associated promise. I was under
> the impression that there wasn't a way to create a future without an
> existing promise object. So something like:
>
> future<int>();
>
> Would introduce an either invalid future whose value could not ever be
> set through an associated promise.

Futures are assignable, so a default constructed future could later be 
assigned a future that does have an associated promise.
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