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		yelnatz on June 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Futures for C++11 at Facebook That term actually makes the subject much more understandable.

masklinn on June 20, 2015 [–]

It doesn't. "Task" has a notion of side-effect and no notion of yielding a value. Except a task can yield a value and have no side-effect.

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