Re: [dylan] stream locking: opt-in or opt-out?

Sean Case <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:45:49 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
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On 1 Aug 2013, at 13:39, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think there is a reasonable case to be made that streams could or should default to being unlocked and allow people who know they need locking to opt into locking and give them an appropriate lock (or make the init-keyword be locked?: and use that to set the stream-lock).

I think there is a reasonable case that the problems caused by
unnecessary locking are as nothing to the problems caused by not
having a lock on something that turns out to need it.

Sean Case
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