DIP 1024---Shared Atomics---Accepted

[Manu]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:20 PM Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/6/2020 10:17 PM, Manu wrote:
> > Well it was a preview for an unaccepted DIP, so it could have been
> > withdrawn. I guess I have increased confidence now, but it still seems
> > unnecessary to delay.
>
> Preview means for accepted DIPs as well when they break existing code.
>
> >> Don't really have a schedule at the moment. It'll likely be at least a year.
> > A year? That's disappointing. What is the reason to delay this? It
> > doesn't break anything, and it likely fixes bugs on contact.
>
> It breaks all code that manipulates shared data directly, whether it was
> correctly written or not.

It will still do that, either now... or later. So, why wait?