Re: Integer 128 != Integer 128 ??
Eric Sosman wrote:
[...]
class Whatever {
// ...
private static Integer count = 0;
static void incrementCount() {
synchronized(count) {
count++;
}
}
// ...
}
.... and then he found that it wasn't working properly. It's my
belief that auto-boxing was entirely responsible for this error:
without auto-boxing, the compiler would have prevented him from
making it in the first place. To put it another way, auto-boxing
silenced a compile-time error and replaced it with a hard-to-debug
run-time error; in my book that's not an improvement.
If your example was:
class Whatever {
// ...
private static int count = 0;
static void incrementCount() {
synchronized(count) {
count++;
}
}
// ...
}
???then it would be plausible. :) Integer is a reference type and should
not require boxing for use in the "synchronized" statement.
And yes, even in C#, locking on a value type is a very bad idea. :)
Pete
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