Condition Variables, third race

[Graham St Jack]

Tommie Gannert wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Time to check out D again...
> 
> I saw Graham St Jack's post in February about condition variables
> (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/34392.html),
> and I just want to give the reason it never got into D/Phobos.
> 
> My first question about CVs is in a post from early December. I coded
> the solution linked to in the February post in mid-December. However,
> the reason it never got any further was:
> 
>  1) I have no idea what the proper way of submitting patches are.
>  2) Walter actually answered; but only with "I'm not using it, so I
>     don't know if it's correct"
>  3) David Friedman told me he would test it, but I never heard from him.
>  4) No one else seemed interested.
> 
> It is still my (and now it seems, Graham's) highest belief that D won't
> be a major language until we have something comparable to Java's
> excellent built-in threading support.
> 
> /Tommie Gannert
I second that motion!

Something should be done before version 1.0, even if it is just an
extension to Phobos to add a Condition class - but a language extension
would be so much nicer because the compiler could do error-checking.

Isn't there anyone out there using threads seriously? What do you use
for conditions? What do you think should be done, if anything?