Is a Promise actually a Wish in c++11

A typical usage of promise is like blow:

// future from a promise

std::promise<int> p;
std::future<int> f3 = p.get_future();
std::thread( [](std::promise<int>& p){ p.set_value(9); }, 
            std::ref(p) ).detach();

f3.wait();

from: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/future

It's confusing, because in real life a promise is what you are willing to do for others rather than asking others to do.

If we call promise here a wish, it all makes sense:

One makes a wish, then gives the wish to another(a thread) and waits for the wish to come true. The wish may not come true because the thread can throw a exception rather than set_value.