Thorsten Schuett <schuett@zib.de> writes:
Hartmut and I wrote a small library which implements futures for C++. I uploaded the code to the boost-sandbox vault. If you find anything odd in there (like e.g. overloading operator T()), you have to blame me, if you find interesting stuff in there, you have to blame Hartmut.
The most basic future is simple_future<T>. Its constructor takes a function which returns T and spawns a new thread executing this function. Afterwards you can call operator()() to block until the thread is done and get the result.
<snip> You asked for comments, so here goes: I find the apparently copious use of implicit conversions disturbing. Especially disturbing is the fact that futures seem to have both incoming and outgoing implicit conversions. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com