On 05/26/2011 11:56 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Rémi Forax<fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: >> As John says, if isValid return true, >> you know nothing because it's perhaps not true anymore. > Not true. You know if it was valid when you queried it. That will be > enough for many use cases (including mine). > > Your assertion could also be made about any state that's not volatile, > of course. I don't think it's fair to say you know nothing about a > bean's getSomething just because it could change immediately after, > and it doesn't mean that having getSomething is not useful. It just > means you need to be aware of threading effects...which pretty much > describes all concurrently mutable state, doesn't it? ;)
You're right :) > - Charlie Rémi _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
