From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-08-12T04:45:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How absurd is this?

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, 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

That's perfect.  And obvious.  :)  Thanks much for helping me see it.


Kirk Haines