"Aliases to mutable thread-local data not allowed" when using spawn()

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, December 02, 2012 16:47:35 D_Beginner wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm quite new do D, but from what I've seen so far, I really like
> it.
> I tried to implement a very basic chatclient that I've written in
>   Go before, and put the logics to send messages in a send()
> function, looking like this:
> 
> void send(TcpSocket sock) {
> 	while(true) {
> 		write("Message: ");
> 		auto msg = strip(readln());
> 		sock.send(msg);
> 	}
> }
> 
> Of course I need this function to run concurrently for I have to
> check for answers from the server at the same time. But when I
> try to launch it in an own thread:
> 
> spawn(&send, sock);
> 
> I get this strange error:
> 
> "Error: static assert "Aliases to mutable thread-local data not
> allowed""
> 
> Why is that? How can I make my function(s) run concurrently if
> not in that way?
> 
> thanks in advance, D_Beginner.

Read this:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1609144

- Jonathan M Davis