Generality creep

Arun Chandrasekaran aruncxy at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 18:32:14 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 4 April 2019 at 21:05:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On the plus side of shared as it is at the moment, and it's a 
> pretty big plus, is it identifies what data is shared, and how 
> it's integrated into the type system is good.
>
> With C and C++, when you've got a shared memory bug, you have 
> no idea where to start. In D, you look at the shared stuff. 
> You're not going to have inadvertently shared variables.

Sorry, Walter. But it is indeed easy to track down shared memory 
bugs than introducing design level bugs with shared.


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