Re: [boost] Re: Lock unification [move]

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-22 06:48:19

Glen Knowles wrote:
>> From: Howard Hinnant [mailto:hinnant_at_[hidden]]
>>> I mostly agree with Bronek Kozicki. Given a movable lock, Eric
>>> Niebler's
>>> proposal:
>>>
>>>     scoped_lock try_lock( Mutex & m );
>>>     scoped_lock timed_lock( Mutex & m );
>>>
>>> is a better try/timed interface. Heisenberg constructors must die.
>>
>> Sorry, I don't know what a Heisenberg constructor is.
>
> It's a reference to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

It's an indication that I can't tell Shroedinger's cat from Heisenberg's
principle. ;-)