Problems with receive

[Stanislav Blinov]

Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> Bob Cowdery wrote:
>>  On 29/08/2010 20:17, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
>>> Stanislav Blinov wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure about Variant part yet (never tried it myself)
>>> Hmm, after some inspection I can say this is an implementation issue.
>>>
>>> You'll find that there are cases when what's told in TDPL doesn't work
>>> (see recent msg[0] or msg.field[0]? in this group, for example). I'
>>> for example, have just found that receive(OwnerTerminated) doesn't
>>> work as well. It's just that current dmd and phobos implementations
>>> need time to catch up TDPL (I know, things often go in reverse, but
>>> with D it's not the case :) )
>> That's a shame because a  catch all is really needed.  I hope the
>> timeout works, not tried that yet. I will probably have explicit thread
>> termination so if OwnerTerminated if a bit broken it's not so important
>> to me but to be able to catch rogue messages and find out what they were
>> is quite key.
> 
> Well, I'm not ready to file a bug report yet, but if you're desperate, I 
> *think* this may do the trick for you (assuming you use 2.048):
> 
> in std/concurrency.d, line 382:
> 
> Change
> if ( i < T.length )
> to
> static if ( i < T.length-1 )
> 
> This works (for me, at least), even without recompilation of phobos.
> Mind you, I propose a hack made by hand, and Sean Kelly or other pros 
> here may well find that I'm wrong, so it's at your own risk :)

Well, yes, I am wrong, as typeof(T.length) is uint.