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

Reinier Zwitserloot reinier at zwitserloot.com
Mon Mar 9 03:05:37 PDT 2009

Ditto - try is the wrong keyword for this one. protected works great.
Also gets rid of the 'you can add catch / finally blocks at the end
for consistency' device, which really doesn't make too much sense for
locks.

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On Mar 9, 2009, at 00:56, Jesse Wilson wrote:

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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