std.concurrency.send

[Sean Kelly]

On May 19, 2012, at 2:13 PM, japplegame wrote:

>> You don't need to mark Tids as shared.
> Okay. I'm writting logger. Logger is global object and it is
> running in its own separate thread (for example, writting logs to
> remote database).
> My application has several threads and all of them want to log
> something. How to share this global logger between threads? I
> think the simplest way is to share logger's thread tid and other
> thread can send logs via this shared tid.

Maybe use register().


>> If you originally create it as shared, you don't need to do the casting.
> Yes. I don't need to cast to shared, but inside thread I get
> shared object and can't store/call/pass it without casting away
> that shared attribute. Or I should make shared everyting that
> have deal with shared object.
> I'am trying to follow Safe D concept, but it forbids casting away
> shared.

I'll admit that send() has only spotty support for shared.  This should be fixed.