In microsoft-land where I reside, they are called tasks and we *cancel* tasks. T...

		batou on June 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Futures for C++11 at Facebook In microsoft-land where I reside, they are called tasks and we cancel tasks. Technically all tasks can be collected in a list and then you just cancel everything in the list but I have yet to find a scenario where I've needed this.