On 07/07/2016 10:06 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
Why the naming wasn't more like the following:
No matter which conventions you choose here, some people will be unhappy or confused. The current scheme seems to make the current users of both Unsafe and AtomicX least unhappy or confused.
VarHandle.getPlain ~ /* new method */ AtomicInteger.getPlain
This is pretty close to original proposal. But ...
Why was it chosen that plain VarHandle.get() method is without Plain suffix?
... a few people complained about the "Plain" (or in one previous guise "Relaxed") suffix being unnecessary and inconsistently applied. For example, should weak-CAS be renamed weakCompareAndSetPlain? -Doug
