On 11/24/2015 09:09 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
Bikeshedding,
On 11/24/2015 01:07 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
How about keepAlive? Reference.keepAlive(Object) reads better, IMO.
It does indeed. Imperative names for methods almost always read better,
IMO. And although we probably don't don't much care about C#, it too
uses the name KeepAlive() for this.
Well, it is not an imperative notion, it is a demarcation.
More like a semicolon than an action. (Which is the realm of fences.)
The choice of reachabilityFence was in part motivated by hearing
about mistakes in using C# keepAlive where people would place keepAlive
before uses of fields, rather than after them. A more accurate name
should reduce this error in Java.
-Doug
