Sharing in D

[superdan]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
> > Walter Bright Wrote:
> > 
> >> http://www.reddit.com/comments/6u7k0/sharing_in_d/
> > 
> > This is one of my 3 big wishes for the D language.
> > 
> > The artical talks about shared being transitive just like
> > const/invariant. I certainly hope it's more like pure than transitive
> > invariant.
> 
> Pure doesn't apply to data types, it applies to functions. I don't know 
> what you mean.

looks 2 me more like more of the confusion in yesterthread.

> > Allowing access to thread-local globals is a bad idea.
> 
> Why? Global thread local storage is even enshrined into C++0x.

99% of the global shit i ever defined i wanted to be thread local. i had to take special measures to make it so. 

dealing with globals in one thread is shitty to boot. using globals to communicate across threads is sheer suicide.