On 02/04/2015 05:01 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
So i propose:- the functions should be side-effect free. ... - concurrent map implementations should, on a best-effort basis, detect non-termination situations and fail with ISE.
We did this as part of changes to better detect recursive computIfAbsent in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062841 The best-effort is pretty good and catches most usage errors along these lines. (In principle it cannot catch all possible errors though.) -Doug
