Something needs to happen with shared, and soon.

[Peter Alexander]

On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 21:29:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 1:11 AM, luka8088 wrote:
>> This clarifies a lot, but still a lot of people get confused 
>> with:
>> http://dlang.org/faq.html#shared_memory_barriers
>> is it a faq error ?
>
> Andrei is a proponent of having shared to memory barriers, I 
> disagree with him. We haven't convinced each other yet, so this 
> is a bit up in the air.

FWIW, I'm with you on this one. Memory barriers would not make 
shared more useful, as they do not solve the issue with 
concurrency (as you have explained earlier).