Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT "sic" (was Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:19:12 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <96ubtdFdp3U3@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net 7ez1E+L6Nb81SWo2azV751wzoknooEOJOM9Qi2RYD/rGZs9JNk1RBPmzoZEsMIttOTCQ9bpqeSZbDPtflE+3N2qzpDwuM1W8ngBZ0mto3pyBuNfdDKLus56/IgJxowet NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="rFoGS12eelO8VMBFgWrRVQBUQ3FYSup5GPi3TquwxvTZ5g1Np8UAlNtsqyB/AJpSME+752I/cnt/0+9NxIzi6I3oumtOdE09uZBIuUkaav0lf2HCDJnJ3VmKoaOBfUzQ"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <96ubtdFdp3U3@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:rhGVob2y/OyDLZsza3ush8ILM7w= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5733 blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: > Lew wrote: >> Alex J wrote: >>> I'm curious why Java designers once decided to allow every object to >>> be lockable (i.e. [sic] allow using lock on those). > > "[sic]"? The only thing that seems wrong here to me is the absence > of a comma after "i.e.". Have I missed an error here .... That'd be it. Good eye. The trouble I had with "IMHO" is the guy spouting off about supposed inefficiencies in Java with regard to one of the most key features of the language, and presuming to offer a so-called "better" solution out of sheer ignorance. That is the antithesis of humility. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg