Howard Hinnant wrote:
You could update the boost documentation and c++ standard to state "attached to a thread of execution" instead of "represents a thread of execution". Then a default constructed thread would not be attached to a thread of execution and only those attached can be joined.
<shrug> We could call it foobar() and document it too. The point of the "best" name is to make it most likely for someone to understand what it does without reading (or re-reading) the docs.
Of course, but FWIV I think that "attached to a thread of execution" is easier to understand than represents. Given the states the class can be in and especially transition through, it's seems more like a thread handle than an actual thread. You could go as far as rename the class to thread_handle and separate the non-default constructor to a free function: thread_handle start_thread(function<void()>); Johan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22joinable%22-tp17503906p17528820.html Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.