Re: [boost] "joinable"

From: Johan Torp (johan.torp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-29 02:58:39

Howard Hinnant wrote:
> 
>> You could update the boost documentation and c++ standard to state  
>> "attached
>> to a thread of execution" instead of "represents a thread of  
>> execution".
>> Then a default constructed thread would not be attached to a thread of
>> execution and only those attached can be joined.
> 
> <shrug>  We could call it foobar() and document it too.  The point of  
> the "best" name is to make it most likely for someone to understand  
> what it does without reading (or re-reading) the docs.
> 

Of course, but FWIV I think that "attached to a thread of execution" is
easier to understand than represents. Given the states the class can be in
and especially transition through, it's seems more like a thread handle than
an actual thread. You could go as far as rename the class to thread_handle
and separate the non-default constructor to a free function:

thread_handle start_thread(function<void()>);

Johan
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