Re: [boost] Comments about N2320

Michael Caisse:

I was hoping somebody else would ask so that I didn't seem like the only uninformed... but since I have not seen the questions yet: Why not branch C and C++ further? Why try to find a solution that works well for both languages?

There are two main reasons, one, because a significant portion of the community doesn't want or need such branching, and two, because the C runtime library is (both de facto and de jure) part of C++. So a "C++ cancelation" that doesn't cancel the C blocking waits would be severely limited in practice, unless the C++ library is revamped to offer pure C++ equivalents to all blocking C functions. (It is still much better than nothing, though.)