shared - i need it to be useful

[Walter Bright]

On 10/17/2018 4:29 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> Isn't that also true for isolated data (data that only allows one alias)?

That's colloquially called "unique" data. And yes, it is also true for that. 
That's why casting the return value of malloc() to 'shared' is safe. It's just 
that the language has no way to semantically identify unique data with its 
current type system.