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Subject: Re: [boost] Monad
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-27 21:50:24


On 27 Aug 2015 at 11:40, Thomas Heller wrote:

> > The idea is that no one ever need implement the Concurrency TS
> > themselves ever again. Just pick up a copy of Boost.Monad/Outcome.
> > Write your policy class for your custom variant. Profit.
>
> Why not just call what it is? Future or FutureFactory or LightweightFuture?

I'm happy with all three of those names too. But I suspect anything
which contains the word "Future" will bring even more attacks by
people who have not looked at the design nor the code and just want
any efforts by me killed off period. Hence I have avoided those names
to date.

Niall

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