synchronized (this[.classinfo]) in druntime and phobos

[SomeDude]

On Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 22:01:50 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
> On 29-05-2012 23:54, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/29/12 2:49 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
> It doesn't, and neither does C#. Java still encourages using 
> synchronized, and C# still encourages using lock, but many 
> prominent figures in those programming language communities 
> have written blog posts on why these language constructs are 
> evil and should be avoided.
>
> Besides, it seems to me that D can't quite make up its mind. We 
> have TLS by default, and we encourage message-passing (through 
> a library mechanism), and then we have the synchronized 
> statement and attribute. It just seems so incredibly 
> inconsistent. synchronized encourages doing the wrong thing 
> (locks and synchronization).

I can't remember having read those blog posts. I agree message 
passing is a better abstraction, but I haven't read Josh Bloch, 
for example, saying "don't use synchronized".