From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T03:51:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Synchronized attr_accessor

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:45:36 +0900, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> For instance, when reading the instance variable @obj outside the
> protection of the lock, it is possible that a thread could @obj being
> non-null, but not seeing the effects of initializing the object until
> much later!

Wow, that was poor grammar on my part.  Let me try again:

For instance, if reading the instance variable @obj outside the protection of the lock, it is possible for a thread to see that @obj is non-null long before the effects of the object's initialize method have become visible to it!

-mental