DIP74: Reference Counted Class Objects
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digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 27 06:42:08 PST 2015
On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 13:36:33 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> AddRef/Release is established COM terminology.
Which is from 1993, a period of time where MS was completely
ignorant of everything outside MS.
Common resource-access terminology is:
acquire/release
retain/release
inc_ref/dec_ref
add_ref/remove_ref
down/up
wait/signal
P/V
open/close
enter/exit
begin/end
…
Notice the symmetry?
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