Re: [boost] [future] Early draft of wait for multiple futures interface

From: Corrado Zoccolo (czoccolo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-07 08:30:44

On 6/6/08, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Johan Torp:
>> One of my points is valid even for these two cases. The future-interface
>> allows the promise-fulfiller to detect that all associated futures has
>> died
>> and that it needn't fulfill the request. That is, if we add this
>> functionality to the promise class.
>
> In principle, the callback interface could return a "task handle" instead of
> void, one that can be used to cancel the task. This looks very similar to
> asio, by the way.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Unsubscribe & other changes:
> http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
>

-- 
__________________________________________________________________________
dott. Corrado Zoccolo                          mailto:czoccolo_at_[hidden]
PhD - Department of Computer Science - University of Pisa, Italy
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The self-confidence of a warrior is not the self-confidence of the average
man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls
that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and
calls that humbleness.
                               Tales of Power - C. Castaneda