Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Threads: Do we need all those mutexes?

7 Jul 2004


      David Abrahams wrote:
...
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
...
This is certainly possible, but I don't see what the additional
complexity buys us.
TryLock l( m, false );
if( l.try_lock() )
    {
    }
looks acceptable to me.
TryLock l( m, non_blocking );
if( l.locked() )
    {
    }
doesn't seem much of an improvement.
It does to me.  I like names that say what they mean; false could
easily be misinterpreted.
'false' is existing practice in this case, which is why I used it in the
example. But it's a distraction; to level the playing field compare:

    TryLock l( m, unlocked );

    if( l.try_lock() )
    {
    }

with:

    TryLock l( m, non_blocking );

    if( l.locked() )
    {
    }