how does 'shared' affect member variables?

[Mike via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 20:17:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2015 15:38:05 -0400, Mike <none at none.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 18:41:59 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I wasn't able to find any thorough documentation on 
>>> shared, so if someone has a link, that would be helpful.
>>>
>>
>> Here are a few interesting links:
>>
>> Iain Buclaw (lead developer for GDC) with his interpretation:
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.739.1431034764.4581.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
>>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu highlighting a critical flaw with `shared`
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/lruc3n$at1$1@digitalmars.com
>>
>> "The truth about shared"
>> http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#The-truth-about-shared
>>
>> Interesting deprecation warning in latest compiler (See 
>> compiler output):
>> http://goo.gl/EGvK72
>>
>> But I don't know what the semantics are *supposed* to be, and 
>> I get the impression noone else knows either.  I'll be 
>> watching this thread myself to see if someone can provide some 
>> insight.
>>
>> Mike
>
> So it seems that although it's not properly implemented, it's 
> still not completely benign, right?
>
> I am trying to create a shared queue/array of delegates that 
> run on the main thread. I don't know if D's 'shared' semantics 
> will affect it or not, and whether or not casting to/from 
> shared will cause problems with 'cas' or 'atomicStore'
>
> Would the following code work as expected?
>

I'm not sure if it would or no, as I haven't used these features 
of D before, but it looks like what you are trying to implement 
is what `synchronized` already provides:  
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/concurrency_shared.html#ix_concurrency_shared.synchronized

Mike