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Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects?

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Date	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:30:58 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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On 6/30/2011 6:04 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Alex J wrote:
>> The better decision, IMHO, would be to introduce lock/wait mechanics
>> for only, say, the Lockable descendants.
>
> I agree with this, actually. There might be some small performance
> improvement, but it would also make the locking behaviour of code more
> explicit, and so clearer.

Given that Java does not allow multiple inheritance then that would
have been tough restriction.

Arne

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Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-21 20:30 -0400
  Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Henderson <h1@g1.f1> - 2011-07-22 00:20 -0400
    Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 10:17 -0400
      Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-22 09:30 -0700
        Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-22 09:45 -0700
        Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 14:53 -0400
  Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2011-07-22 04:39 +0000
    Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 10:19 -0400

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