Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Threads - 'lock' name (was Re: Boost

From: Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-07-20 12:07:07

Author:  jsiek (jsiek_at_[hidden]) at unix,mime
Date:    20/07/01 17:38

     
>"locker" also seems like a better name to me... it avoids confusion, and 
>since the primary purpose of these names is to communicate, avoiding 
>confusion is important. (and the "Lock" concept could be changed to 
>"Locker").

Not to me. I'm perfectly fine with the name lock. Bill's suggestion of 
scoped_lock would also be fine and for that matter, because of auto_ptr, I 
could live with auto_lock. However, I have yet to see any reasoning of why 
the name should change, other than reasoning by assertion.

However, I would probably prefer the public member function names to 
change to aquire & release instead of lock and unlock. Mainly becuse I 
find the following a little strange and I think it could be confusing.

void foo ( )
{
    boost::mutex::lock ( MyMutex );

   // do some stuff

    lock.unlock ( );  // fine

    // some more stuff

    lock.lock ( ); // looks very strange - somewhat ctor like?
    // ...
}

/ikh

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