id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
4710,c++11 compliance: : Missing async(),Dave Abrahams,viboes,"The lack of an `async()` call makes futures awfully cumbersome to use.  I hacked up this nullary prototype for C++03.  It's better than nothing!

{{{
#!cpp
#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include <boost/utility/result_of.hpp>

template <class F>
boost::detail::thread_move_t<boost::unique_future<typename boost::result_of<F()>::type> >
async(F f)
{
    typedef typename boost::result_of<F()>::type R;
    boost::packaged_task<R> pt( f );
    
    typedef boost::unique_future<R> future;
    future ret = pt.get_future();
    boost::thread( boost::move(pt) ).detach();
    return boost::move(ret);
}
}}}
",Feature Requests,closed,Boost 1.52.0,thread,Boost 1.44.0,Problem,fixed,async standard,viboes