Using objects that manage threads via std.concurrency

[Ali Çehreli]

On 02/11/2013 01:37 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:

 > What should a manager do if it
 > calls "receive", and notices the message wasn't meant for him?

Threads receive their own messages. If there is a specific receiver of a 
message, then the child sends it to that receiver. As FG said, every 
thread has a separate mailbox.

It is possible to introduce threads to each other by their thread ids, 
which can be mapped to arbitrary names. (See register, locate, and 
unregister in std.concurrency.)

 > Does any one have any (simple) literature on the subject?

My experiments have been documented in the following chapter:

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/concurrency.html

The "Thread names" section in there has a simple example that involves a 
third party introducing two threads to each other.

Ali