> On Dec 19, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@igalia.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: >> I’ve gotten used to the name AtomicString over the years, but I wouldn’t >> strongly object to changing it if other programmers are often confused by >> it’s similarity to the term “atomic operations”. > > Well there were two other developers in the thread Ryosuke linked to who made > the exact same mistake as me, so I do think the current name is problematic. > A change wouldn't need to be drastic, though. I think suggestions from the > old thread like "StringAtom" or "AtomString" would be unproblematic. The > problem is the specific word "atomic" carries an expectation that the object > be safe to access concurrently across threads without locks; I think that > expectation doesn't exist if not for the "ic" at the end. > > FWIW I've only ever heard the "interned string" terminology prior to now.
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