State of Play

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:27:25 -0400, Walter Bright 
>> You can already used shared/unshared. The semantics aren't 
>> implemented, but the type system support for it is.
> 
> But is it enforced?

No, it is just type-checked.

> Basically, I want to focus on one new language 
> aspect at a time.  As far as I know, with the current D compiler, I can 
> access a global not marked shared from multiple threads, no?

That's correct.

> When 
> shared/unshared is actually implemented, each thread gets its own copy, 
> right?

Of unshared data, right, each thread gets its own copy. The default will 
be __thread for globals.