Re: [boost] Updated version of futures library

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-02 16:42:25

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On Monday 02 June 2008 15:42 pm, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >
> > Oh, I came up with a reason that having future_value objects as inputs
> > can be
> > preferable to the solution you describe.  Your solution forces the
> > "lifted"
> > functions to always take templates arguments.  But template methods can't
> > be
> > made virtual.  Also, you can't pass them to bind() without manually
> > specifying all the template parameters.
>
> Hm. I'm not sure I follow. Let's say that I have:
>
> struct A
> {
>     virtual int f( long x ) = 0;
> };
>
> int g();
>
> future<int> h( A* pa )
> {
>     return async( &A::f, pa, async( g ) );
> }
>
> What's the problem with the outer async recognizing that its third argument
> is a future and treating it as a dependency?

That's interesting, is this async stuff from an existing library somewhere, or 
is it a hypothetical interface?  I don't see any problem with it.
 
I was thinking of a virtual active object class, like:

struct ActiveA
{
        virtual future_value<int> f( future_value<long> x ) = 0;
};

I believe your solution could be used to achieve similar effects, but it is a 
very different interface.  I'm not saying my interface is the only way to 
skin the cat, just that I want to be able to implement the interface I prefer 
and make it work as well as possible.
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