On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> wrote:
"Tom Brinkman" <reportbase@gmail.com> writes:
Ponderings on the Futures Library:
What is the status of Anthony Williams' submission of the futures library to the c++ standards committee?
Futures have been approved by the committee. They are part of the current working draft:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2798.pdf
And the technical content of N2798 is the same as N2800, which was shipped as CD-1 and is now in the ISO balloting process. CD-1 isn't intended to pass the ballot. Rather, it serves to put the world on notice that C++0x is feature complete. Essentially a fairly late beta release. That means that committee work on C++0x futures is done, except for corrections in response to ballot comments. It would be very unusual if futures did not make it into the final C++0x standard, and with little if any change from the current specification. What change do occur will be mostly tightening up the specification and tweaking the wording. Few if any new features will be added. So we should aim for the Boost threading library to conform to N2800 as closely as we can. It is OK to add extensions, but we shouldn't leave out features or change existing features, IMO. --Beman