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Customers not getting the widgets they paid for if they click too fast -or- In C#, the += operator is not merely not guaranteed to be atomic, it is guaranteed not to be atomic

August 14, 2014 Aug 14, 2014 08/14/14

Raymond Chen

In the C# language, operation/assignment such as are explicitly not atomic. But you already knew this, at least for properties. Recall that properties are syntactic sugar for method calls. A property declaration is internally converted to the equivalent of Accessing a property is similarly transformed. Note that the only operations ...