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[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> Before we discuss endless about useless stuff, I'll make a proposal for a
> first addition: support of the synchronized keyword. It does no more than
> protecting a procedure automatically by a critical section so only one thread
> can enter it. But I want to extend it. First, it can be applied also to
> classes and object:
> 
> tmyclass = class(...) synchronized
> 
> This means that all classes synchronize against one critical section.

Can you explain this statement ?

All methods of this class are protected by the same critical section ?
So in fact only one method of such a class is executing at the same time ?

Michael.