The "no gc" crowd

[Sean Kelly]

On Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 23:33:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> Yeah. The only times that something is going to accept shared 
> is when it was
> specifically designed to work as shared (which most code 
> isn't), or if it's
> templated and the template happens to work with shared. Regular 
> functions just
> aren't going to work with shared without casting away shared, 
> because that
> would usually mean either templating everything or duplicating 
> functions all over the place.

I think that's pretty reasonable though.  Shared data needs to be 
treated differently, explicitly, or things go downhill fast.