synchronized (this[.classinfo]) in druntime and phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/30/12 12:22 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 30/05/2012 20:03, cal a écrit :
>> On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 17:46:11 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>>> Such an object is known to be lockable, and most object will not
>>>>>> be. It will avoid liquid lock, because most thing will not be
>>>>>> lockable.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm celebrating day 2 of having no idea what a liquid lock is.
>>>>
>>>> I have to confess to this as well. I'm starting to suspect that he
>>>> really means deadlock. Searching on Google for "liquid lock mutex"
>>>> literally brings up this very NG thread. :)
>>>>
>>> Maybe it's livelock?
>>>
>>> P.S. Just trying to snatched the prize in this little guess-game :)
>>
>> FWIW, I recently came across the term here:
>> http://schneide.wordpress.com/tag/liquid-lock/
>
> I explained that in another post a few minutes ago, and yes, this is it.
>
> Maybe i should write an article on that, I though it was more well known.

As a side note, I'm highly weary of inventing new terminology. This is a 
general remark, not related to this particular instance. Most often when 
I personally found the need to invent a new term, it was because of not 
having done my homework of looking at related work.

Andrei