Questions about shared

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 12:11:58 UTC, weltensturm wrote:
> Why isn't it allowed to implicitly cast shared data to normal 
> data, or will that be part of the final implementation? It's a 
> bit annoying to cast everything back when using external 
> libraries.

Because there are no guarantees about what the library function 
will do with the object. It ensures that you don't accidentally 
pass a shared object to a function that doesn't think about 
thread-safety.