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[Ted Baker]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:33:33AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> ... supposed to throw.  Exceptions raised by polling are not asynchronous
> by that definition, unless of course the function doing the polling
> and throwing lies and claims it doesn't throw.

Exactly!  If the polling can occur at unknown points, including
C-language functions in a chain of library calls below your
level of visibility, then the effect can be indistinguishable.

--Ted