Re: [boost] Updated version of futures library

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.