From: Mike Harris <GENIE@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T04:37:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How absurd is this?

Martin DeMello wrote:

> 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
>
>
+1