What's the current state of D?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri May 8 16:18:45 PDT 2009


dsimcha wrote:
> Just out of curiosity,
> though, you use __gshared in a lot of places and I haven't seen it in any of the
> discussions.  What is it?

__gshared is the "cowboy" approach, it means make it global and I don't 
care about any weenie synchronization or type checking. It's handy for 
initial ports of "I just want it to compile, I'll fix it later".

Naturally, it won't be allowed in safe mode.



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