Concurrency architecture for D2

[retard]

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:56:09 -0500, Jason House wrote:

> retard Wrote:
> 
>> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:32:52 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>> > I think we are now in the position of defining a solid set of
>> > concurrency primitives for D. This follows many months of mulling
>> > over models and options.
>> > 
>> > It would be great to open the participation to the design as broadly
>> > as possible, but I think it's realistic to say we won't be able to
>> > get things done on the newsgroup. When we discuss a topic around
>> > here, there's plenty of good ideas but also the inevitable bikeshed
>> > discussions, explanations being asked, explanations being given, and
>> > other sources of noise. We simply don't have the time to deal with
>> > all that - the time is short and we only have one shot at this.
>> > 
>> > That's why I'm thinking of creating a mailing list or maybe another
>> > group for this. Any ideas on what would be the best approach? I also
>> > want to gauge interest from threading experts who'd like to
>> > participate. Please advise: (a) whether you would like to participate
>> > to the design; (b) keep discussions on the general group; (c) create
>> > a separate newsgroup; (d) create a mailing list. The latter would
>> > have open enrollment.
>> 
>> Have the discussions here ever led to a conclusion and get implemented?
> 
> DIP2 is a great example of something designed on this newsgroup that got
> implemented very recently. It went from newsgroup to bugzilla to DIP to
> implementation. T[new] is another one that almost made it.

Ok, good to know.

>> You should at least disallow posting via the web interface - those
>> broken threads start to annoy some people.
> 
> Do my posts show up as broken threads? I use the web interface almost
> exclusively.

This one didn't break the thread. But sometimes it does break.