Yes, I guess it is reasonable. Come to think of it, I objected because I thought it doesn't give you a chance to initialize whatever your object/structure/what

Yes, I guess it is reasonable. Come to think of it, I objected because I thought it doesn't give you a chance to initialize whatever your object/structure/whatever's synchronization mechanism is. But that's not really true. The call to initialize your synchronization mechanism would contain the barrier you need so a general initialization doesn't generally need one.