Re: Multi-object locks (was Re: RFC 35 / Re: perl6-internals-gc sublist)

[Larry Wall]

Dan Sugalski writes:
: A language issue. Being able to require multiple locks upon entering a sub, 
: along with timeouts and retries and such, would be very nice, and something 
: for the language people. (Which probably means some of us over there, since 
: I don't know that we have that much thread experience in the pure perl side 
: of the world)

Be careful what you ask for from us language designers.  If you're not
careful, we'll take away your low-level primitives and give you something
like Ada's rendezvous model.

Larry