Re: [boost] Boost.Threads, N2178, N2184, et al

From: Yuval Ronen (ronen_yuval_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-19 17:51:24

Peter Dimov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'd like to start working on a Boost implementation of my threading proposal 
> N2178:
> 
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2178.html

Just some naming comments, if I may:

It seems to me the word "lock" is used with different meanings. For 
example, there's a "rwlock" and the scoped wrappers for it are 
"read_lock" and "write_lock". Very confusing, IMO. I think the word 
"lock" should either be used for the synchronization classes, or for the 
scoped wrappers, but not both.

The word "scoped" appears only for mutex's scoped_lock, although 
read_lock and write_lock are also scoped. My opinion is that this word 
should either be part of the names of all the scoped wrappers or none of 
them, in a uniform manner.

Yuval