Re: [Boost-users] [signals] thread-safe post-disconnect() cleanup

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-24 11:59:58

Frank Mori Hess wrote:

> I wasn't planning on dropping support for automatic tracking of signals, I
> don't see that dropping it would make things any less confusing for the
> user.

Automatic tracking is nice, but is it workable, if the goal is for the 'new' 
signals to become part of the C++ standard library one day? It requires 
cooperation from the function objects, and this is hard to achieve in 
practice.

(I'm not sure of the status of the TR2 signal proposal.)