Static constructors?

[awishformore]

On 22/07/2010 07:54, Dave wrote:
> On 7/21/2010 7:27 PM, awishformore wrote:
>> On 22/07/2010 03:36, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Make the ctors "shared static this()" -- those are only constructed
>>> once when the process starts up. The non-shared static ctors are
>>> thread-local.
>>
>> That concept is really weird, though. So this applies to anything
>> static, not just variables?
>
> I had the same issue, I believe this pretty much explains it all:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/migrate-to-shared.html
>

I read that page about a million times already, and it pretty much 
explains nothing. Where does this page even mention shared functions, 
structs, classes or objects?

The same goes for TDPL by Andrei. It's a bit more elaborate, but it 
still doesn't even get close to explaining shared in detail.

/Max