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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/30/12 12:17 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> The result is a feature that is arguably only useful in small laboratory
> cases. Are you sure we shouldn't revisit shared and try to work out a
> bridge between the unshared and shared world?

We're as always open to suggestions.

>> There exist type systems that avoid locks. They are very restrictive and
>> difficult to work with.
>
> I can think of 3 languages that have monitors in the "type" system: D,
> C# (as a result of the CLR's design; mostly because they wanted Java
> interoperability), and Java. Are you really saying all other type
> systems are difficult to work with just because of this little thing?

Apologies, meant "avoid deadlocks" instead of "avoid locks".


Andrei