> On 12. Jun 2017, at 11:10, Erik Aigner via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> In my day to day tasks, synchronization primitives are used quite often. ObjC 
> had the @synchronized attribute for methods. I didn’t find anything about 
> this in swift evolution, so I thought i bring it up here. I think it would 
> quite easily be possible to introduce a synchronized qualifier for 
> struct/class objects that automatically synthesize a semaphore variable on 
> the object and use it to lock said method. Here is an example of how that 
> would work
> 
> Without the synchronized attribute (code written in mail, not compiled):
> 
> class Obj {
> 
>        private let sema = DispatchSemaphore(value: 1)
> 
>       func synchronizedMethod() {
>               sema.wait()
>               defer {
>                       sema.signal()
>               }
>               // do something...
>       }
> }
> 
> With synchronized attribute (the semaphore/wait/deferred-signal is 
> synthesized by Swift automatically)
> 
> class Obj {
> 
>       synchronized func method() {
>               // semaphore is synthesized automatically, do something…
>       }
> }
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Erik
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Swift does not currently have any special support for concurrency. That will 
undoubtedly come in some future version of Swift, and atomic operations and 
data are pretty common use-cases which I’m sure the community will want covered.

- Karl
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