From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T04:27:40+09:00
Subject: Re: How absurd is this?

On 8/12/06, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> Imagine you have in a method a block.  Sometimes you will want that block
> to be executed via a mutex.synchronize() call.  And sometimes you don't
> want to synchronize.

I'd add a Mutex#synchronize_unless

def method_with_a_block
  @mutex.synchronize_unless(dont_lock_here()) do
      puts "This block may or may not be synchronized, depending on whether
 dont_lock_here() returned true or false."
    end
 end

martin