What's the current state of D?

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha at yahoo.com)'s article
>
> Awesome.  I actually found a few of these bugs in the past few days, and was
> meaning to report them.  I guess I don't need to now.  Just out of curiosity,
> though, you use __gshared in a lot of places and I haven't seen it in any of the
> discussions.  What is it?

It's a way to declare something as "classic global" so you can sidestep any bugs
that crop up with the implementation of 'shared'.  The hope is that you'll
eventually just be able to do a search/replace of '__gshared' to 'shared' once
everything is working correctly.