[D-runtime] Why do we expose thread_init()?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

Yeah, my point is mostly that I don't think exposing this one
particular function serves much purpose (and using it externally would
most likely make the runtime blow up in 99.99998% of cases).

Regards,
Alex

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any particular reason we expose thread_init() in core.thread?
>> This seems like the kind of function that really shouldn't be in the
>> public API since it's used for internal runtime initialization.
>
> Most of the extern © calls are not really meant for public use.  thread_init() has this name mostly because the namespace chosen for thread stuff was "thread_".  It would be easy enough to mark it private though.
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