Idea: rename Semaphore to Sofa? · Issue #156 · python-trio/trio (original) (raw)

Once a friend of mine explained me what a semaphore is really nicely. He said that it's like a sofa, at most n people can sit on it at a time and others need to wait for free seats. I would have probably never understood what semaphores are without this explanation.

Trio already has nurseries instead of task groups, so I think it would make sense to have sofas instead of semaphores.