Merge pull request #99 from alexrp/master

Document that synchronized supports recursive locking.
dlang · Mar 16, 2012 · c44bdcb · c44bdcb
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@@ -1404,6 +1404,12 @@ synchronized { ... }
         $(P This implements a standard critical section.
         )
 
+        $(P Synchronized statements support recursive locking; that is, a
+        function wrapped in synchronized is allowed to recursively call
+        itself and the behavior will be as expected: The mutex will be
+        locked and unlocked as many times as there is recursion.
+        )
+
 <h2>$(LNAME2 TryStatement, Try Statement)</h2>
 
         Exception handling is done with the try-catch-finally statement.