Count your blessings!

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-06-10 17:38:55 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> * there is nothing to improve threads, further demotivating support for 
> Deadlock-Oriented Programming (DOP) in D

On the contrary. I believe they're doing nothing because their hands are tied.

They cannot do much for multithreading at the language level without 
creating breaking changes. What's needed for DOP is a language and 
compiler with the proper restrictions, and good defaults. Changing any 
of this is a breaking change and thus gets rejected (like const) 
because they want to keep backward compatibility.

With D2, we have the liberty of breaking things to make them better. We 
already have, and I hope it continues.


-- 
Michel Fortin
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