Yuval Ronen wrote:
I never said that. If the C standard committee decides to fully adopt pthreads, I'd be fine with it. And if the C++ standard committee decides to be backwards compatible with C, and also adopt pthreads, I'd be fine with that too. I just don't think it should come instead of "the best" C++ interface, which is what I care about most.
Nobody can disagree with that. The problem in our discussion lies with tying whether one C++ API is better than another with whether the C++ API comes with a C API in the same proposal. This implies that the second C++ API contains design compromises purely because it has a C sibling - guilt by association - without actually stating any. Another interesting question is whether "the best" C++ interface is independent of the existence of a standard pthreads API. The answer very much depends on the perspective of whoever determines what is "best" for him, of course.