[fpc-devel] Safely shareable objects

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Adem schrieb:
> On 2011-06-30 17:07, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> The idea is a merge of reference counting and thread synchronization,
>> which I could not find in any other language yet (dunno about ADA in
>> detail), but which can be implemented easily in OPL/FPC. Inspiration
>> came from TThreadList and Interfaces.
> 
> Could there be a fully lockable object class?
> 
> I mean an class which (when locked) none of its 
> methods/properties/variables can be read/called/altered from outside 
> except, of course, by the locking object itself.

Such a beast would deserve many coding efforts, which are unlikely to be 
ever taken. It's much simpler to control existing references to an 
object, since every use of an object deserves an object reference.
No woman - no cry ;-)

DoDi