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From: Frank Mori Hess (fmhess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-31 23:22:48


On Saturday 31 May 2008 23:21, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> I don't particularly like the implicit conversion from T to future<T>,

Err, I meant future<T> to T.

> but that has absolutely nothing to do with not wanting to treat a
> future<T> as a placeholder. It's simply because the conversion can
> block, and thus produce unexpected behavior (an object appearing on the
> right hand side of an assignment stalling your program). The explicit
> future::get() at least gives a hint that something more than a quick
> conversion might be happening.




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