On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:39:44PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote:
> Sure, that's the sort of thing that anonymous functions are great for.
> 
> let criticial f =
>   Mutex.lock someMutex;
>   let tmp = f () in
>   Mutex.unlock someMutex;
>   tmp

If f throws an exception the mutex will not get unlocked, which is
probably not what you wanted.

- Joe

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