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[Remi Forax]

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> De: "Stephen Colebourne" <scolebourne at joda.org>
> À: "valhalla-dev" <valhalla-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 20 Février 2019 13:21:22
> Objet: Re: valhalla-spec-comments post from jackammo77 at gmail.com requires approval

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 01:05, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>> For me, I think we should all work on getting used to
>> the idea that some Java objects *should not* be
>> synchronizable.  Well, that's already true, but let's
>> give our JVM permission to diagnose that particular
>> "should not" with an IllegalMonitorStateException
>> or something like that.  Bad?  Yes, but the least-bad,
>> where value types are concerned.
> 
> Is there a way to ease the pain? 

if we want to ease the pain, the best is as John said to teach that synchronized doesn't work on some objects and emit a compile error when someone try to synchronized on String, Integer or Class (all are interned references) to spread the knowledge that you can not synchronized on all objects.

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