Something needs to happen with shared, and soon.

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 12.11.2012 07:50, schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 11/11/2012 10:05 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> The only problem beeing that you can not really have user defined
>> shared (value)
>> types:
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8295
>
> If you include an object designed to work only in a single thread
> (non-shared), make it shared, and then destruct it when other threads
> may be pointing to it ...
>
> What should happen?
>

I'm not talking about objects, I'm talking about value types.
And you can't make it work at all. If you do

   shared ~this()
   {
     buf = null;
   }

it won't work either. You don't have _any_ option to destroy a shared 
struct.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut