Pre-Proposal: Linguistic support for locks (original) (raw)

Jesse Wilson jesse at swank.ca
Sun Mar 8 16:56:45 PDT 2009

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:

try () { }

try is definitely the wrong keyword here. Mostly because there's already a method Lock.tryLock() that is not at all related to this sweet sugar. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/locks/Lock.html#tryLock()

  1. Use the protected keyword in place of try.
    This is fantastic. I especially like that proper Locks would become just as easy-to-use as the built-in monitor on Object.

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