That thread makes me think we should make some jmh tests for this. On 24 June 2016 at 04:10, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Greg Thomas <greg.d.tho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I''m sure I read somewhere that it was a deliberate choice not to make >> it, to stop people using the very common pattern of creating the object in >> the try() - which isn't much use for a lock. >> > > Here? > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2011-February/003114.html > > Gary > > >> >> >> Greg >> -- >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 24 Jun 2016, at 00:45, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Good idea! >> Maybe propose this for Java 9? >> Looks very reasonable to me. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2016/06/24, at 8:32, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I wonder if anyone knows why Lock is not AutoCloseable. >> >> This: >> >> public static boolean hasManager(final String name) { >> LOCK.lock(); >> try { >> return MAP.containsKey(name); >> } finally { >> LOCK.unlock(); >> } >> } >> >> >> Seems lame in comparison to: >> >> public static boolean hasManager(final String name) { >> try (LOCK.lock()) { >> return MAP.containsKey(name); >> } >> } >> >> Which, due to syntax really would be: >> >> public static boolean hasManager(final String name) { >> try (Object o = LOCK.lock()) { >> return MAP.containsKey(name); >> } >> } >> >> Just wonderin'... >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>