Idea for Threads

[Frits van Bommel]

Martin Persenius wrote:
> Frits,
> 
> You (I) learn something new everyday - thanks!

You're welcome.

> What do you think about types with automatic locking then? Not specifically my fouled up attempt.

It's a nice idea, but probably not easy to implement in a way that's 
intuitively "right".
If the type has multiple fields, for example, you might want to keep the 
lock over multiple accesses. I'm not sure if that can be done nicely in 
the current language.
If "smart references" (akin to C++ "smart pointers") were possible that 
could be a good way to implement it though. But overloading "." is 
currently not possible...

> I suppose I need to become more familiar with the exact details of the problems to be overcome in threading.

I'm not terribly familiar with them either. I just noticed a race 
condition :).