valid uses of shared

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:01:41 -0400, mta`chrono  
<chrono at mta-international.net> wrote:

> Would this be legal?
>
> class A
> {
>      private static shared int counter; // shared across all instances
>
>      this()
>      {
>           auto i = ++counter;
>           pragma(msg, typeof(i)); // prints int
>      }
> }
>

Yes, but it would not automatically make ++counter atomic.

My proposal is simply to avoid sharing data that shouldn't be shared (i.e.  
stack data and temporaries), not to make all operations thread-safe.

-Steve