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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.ASIO "deasynchronisation"
From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-25 21:06:57


Igore Dmit. wrote:

> My problem is that any synchronous-access
> function breaks into many little functions that do some part of job and
> invoke async operation with "next" function as a handler, it makes the
> code really ugly and obfuscating.

I know exactly what you mean. We've started using the proposed
Boost.Coroutine library (not yet official, a Google Summer of Code
effort plus some bug fixes). You might be interested that the original
author specifically targets use with ASIO.

http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/soc/coroutine/index.html
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/soc/coroutine/coroutine/asio.html
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost-coroutine-2009-12-01.tar.gz&directory=Concurrent%20Programming&

A couple of the bundled tests are built around ASIO.


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