[dmd-concurrency] draft 8: the final countdown

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Thanks, noted.

Andrei

Christian Kamm wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 February 2010 16:05 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I can't believe it's not butter! Draft 8 is the first that completely
>> covers the topics I'd planned. For a good time download:
>>
>> http://erdani.com/d/fragment.preview.pdf
> 
> Interesting read!
> 
> * The first message passing example uses tid.send(thisTid, i) to send a Tid 
> and an int. Then you describe the pattern matching in receive and explain that
> receive( (string) {} ); matches send(tid, "hello");. I guess that should be 
> tid.send("hello") or the former ought to have been send(tid, thisTid, i)? If 
> there are two versions of send - or if the uniform call syntax made it into D2 
> - I think switching between them at this point hurts clarity.
> 
> * The synchronized version of BankAccount is missing a @property on balance. 
> And one of the not-really-D versions has it, the other doesn't.
> 
> * The collection of apostrophes in ‘we’re done, let’s finish and go home.’ 
> looks odd.
> 
> * The parts of the text I read looked great. I'd drop the "legally-acquired" 
> and move the "Best Form-Follows-Function" explanation to the section on 
> immutable if it precedes this one.
> 
> 
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