On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Tomas Mikula <tomas.mik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting, no worse than John's pattern though.
>> I thought of using a try/finally to make sure release was called and that
>> naturally lead to thinking of try-with-resources, where the "resource" in
>> this case is a binding of some sort (or a wrapper around a binding) that is
>> invalidated on close() if needed.
>
> That is an interesting idea. I didn't intend blockWhile() to be safe
> with respect to exceptions, but merely
>
> void blockWhile(Runnable r) {
> block();
> r.run();
> release();
> }
>
> Enhancement you are suggesting could be fleshed out as block()
> returning an AutoCloseable and the usage would be
>
> try(AutoCloseable a = relaxedArea.block()) {
> obj.setWidth(w);
> obj.setHeight(h);
> }
OK, done. I implemented both:
1. added the blockWhile() method;
2. made bindings AutoCloseable, and block() returns `this`.
Tomas
