Reverse AtomicBool value in nomicon example to agree with its comment.

Makes the code agree with the comment: 'value answers "am I locked?"'.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/doc/nomicon/atomics.md b/src/doc/nomicon/atomics.md
index d781e59d7c9..08f0de4f006 100644
--- a/src/doc/nomicon/atomics.md
+++ b/src/doc/nomicon/atomics.md
@@ -210,18 +210,18 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 use std::thread;
 
 fn main() {
-    let lock = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(true)); // value answers "am I locked?"
+    let lock = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)); // value answers "am I locked?"
 
     // ... distribute lock to threads somehow ...
 
-    // Try to acquire the lock by setting it to false
-    while !lock.compare_and_swap(true, false, Ordering::Acquire) { }
+    // Try to acquire the lock by setting it to true
+    while lock.compare_and_swap(false, true, Ordering::Acquire) { }
     // broke out of the loop, so we successfully acquired the lock!
 
     // ... scary data accesses ...
 
     // ok we're done, release the lock
-    lock.store(true, Ordering::Release);
+    lock.store(false, Ordering::Release);
 }
 ```