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CAtomicFixnum should probably be a private constant #981

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@eregon

Otherwise we get misleading suggestions from did-you-mean in case concurrent/atomic/atomic_fixnum is not required but the extension is loaded like:

     NameError:
       uninitialized constant Concurrent::AtomicFixnum
     
                 counter = AtomicFixnum.new
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
       Did you mean?  Concurrent::CAtomicFixnum
     # ./spec/concurrent/atomic/cyclic_barrier_spec.rb:106:in `block (4 levels) in <module:Concurrent>'

Note that even if it's private, did-you-mean is still kind of misleading:

     NameError:
       uninitialized constant Concurrent::AtomicFixnum
     
                   counter = AtomicFixnum.new
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
       Did you mean?  Concurrent::AtomicReference
     # ./spec/concurrent/atomic/cyclic_barrier_spec.rb:191:in `block (5 levels) in <module:Concurrent>'

And there are various specs checking defined? Concurrent::CAtomicFixnum and even a benchmark referencing Concurrent::CAtomicFixnum, so it's not so easy to make it private unfortunately.

Unclear if worth fixing. WIP at master...eregon:concurrent-ruby:private-AtomicFixnum

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