Based on the fact that AtomicString is really a singleton string, I’d like to suggest a new name for this class:
Stringleton Simon On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Brendan Long <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/01/2013 10:09 PM, Glenn Adams wrote: >> But the name did throw me, since I asked myself "what makes this more >> 'atomic' than String, synchronicity wise"? I'm sure I'm not the only one who >> wondered about this. > Before asking this question I had assumed AtomicString was an atomic type (as > in, safe to use in multi-threaded code). InternedString would have been more > obvious, but the biggest problem was that searching for "WebKit AtomicString" > didn't return any results that explained what it was. Now the top hit has an > explanation, so it's not a big deal.
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