David M. Lloyd

Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc.

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7 October 2008

More uses for Dave's Dumb Closures

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Truly pluggable locking strategies:

    public interface Locker {  
        void hold() for myBlock();  
    }  
    public class SynchLocker {  
        private final Object lock;  
        public SynchLocker(Object lock) { this.lock = lock; }  
        public void hold() for myBlock() {  
            synchronized (lock) {  
                myBlock();  
            }  
        }  
    }  
    public class LockLocker {  
        private final Lock lock;  
        public LockLocker(Lock lock) { this.lock = lock; }  
        public void hold() for myBlock() {  
            lock.lock();  
            try {  
                myBlock();  
            } finally {  
                lock.unlock();  
            }  
        }  
    }  
    ...later...  
    Locker l = ...take your pick...;  
    l.hold() {  
        ...do stuff...  
    }

Let’s see you do that efficiently with anonymous inner classes or BGGA.

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