What's the current state of D?

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

I like the moniker "classic global", or perhaps even better, "global 
classic" as a term for it.