What are the real issues?

[David Abrahams]

Matt Austern <austern at apple.com> writes:

> Third, some people simply object to having cancellation be an
> exception (or anything that looks like an exception): 

Who?

> it means there are some functions that can throw exceptions in the
> presence of threads that wouldn't throw in a single-threaded
> program.

I don't think it means that.  We might choose to throw cancellation
exceptions only from functions that could throw in a single-threaded
app or (threading-specific) functions that can't appear in a
single-threaded app.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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