Why does std.concurrency.Mailbox use lists ?

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 11:11:08 UTC, Marc Schütz
wrote:
>
> I think there should be an explicit guarantee for those 
> protocols that can provide it. Otherwise it would just be an 
> implementation detail that cannot be relied upon, and people 
> always have to assume the worst.

Agreed.  I absolutely don't want to get into a situation where
people are trying to create an ordered protocol on top of an
unordered one, like how people occasionally end up trying to
implement TCP via UDP.