The "no gc" crowd

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/10/13 12:33 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I honestly don't think we can solve it a different way without completely
> redesigning shared. shared is specifically designed such that you have to
> either cast it way to do anything with it

no

> or write all of your code to
> explicitly work with shared, which is not something that generally makes sense
> to do unless you're creating a type whose only value is in being shared across
> threads.

yes

> Far more frequently, you want to share a type which you would also
> use normally as a thread-local variable, and that means casting.

no


Andrei