On Thursday, 12 July 2012 at 12:06:49 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
Jon Skeet wrote on this long ago:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2008/12/05/redesigning-system-object-java-lang-object.aspx
The fact that every object has a monitor associated with it was a
mistake in Java, and was unfortunately copied in .NET. This
promotes the bad practice of locking on "this" and on types -
both of which are typically publicly accessible references. I
believe that unless a reference is exposed explicitly for the
purpose of locking (like ICollection.SyncRoot) then you should
avoid locking on any reference which other code knows about.
This has been discussed multiple times on the D forum, I believe.
