Re: I wish I could make my own keywords
"Chris Becke" <chris.becke@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1252681334.274186@vasbyt.isdsl.net...
Think for a moment about the compiler checking const correctness adds.
Then, imagine a c++ with a syntax where we could create our own 'const'
like qualifier keywords.
In a multi threaded development environment one could imagine wanting to
declare a 'threadsafe' qualifier.
declare_qualifier threadsafe;
threadsafe would be a qualifier for methods - methods qualified as
threadsafe would cause compiler errors if they attempted to call non
threadsafe qualified methods.
Humm... I am wondering why it would be an error for a threadsafe method to
call a non-threadsafe method? Think in terms of the following pseudo-code:
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class foo
{
int m_data;
mutex m_mutex;
private:
void prv_add(int data)
{
m_data += data;
}
public:
void add(int data)
{
mutex::guard lock(m_mutex);
prv_add(data);
}
void sub(int data)
{
mutex::guard lock(m_mutex);
prv_add(-data);
}
};
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I guess one can consider `foo::add/sub()' to be "threadsafe" methods, and
`foo::prv_add()' would be a non-threadsafe method. I see no problems with
this setup in which threadsafe methods calls a non-threadsafe method to do
the actual work. In fact, it's a fairly common technique that gets around
the need for nasty recursive mutexs...
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