Unsafe, unchecked message-passing with std.concurrency

[Petar]

On Thursday, 27 August 2020 at 08:59:45 UTC, Elronnd wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 August 2020 at 08:46:31 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
>> Since you're fine with unsafe, unchecked - why not just lie to 
>> the compiler? Cast the data to shared and send it on its merry 
>> way?
>
> It's bothersome and error-prone.  I have to cast the data to 
> shared.  I also have to remember to receive a shared object on 
> the other side (and if I forget, I won't get a compile error, 
> stuff will just silently break).  Once I've received it, I have 
> to cast away the shared again if I want to be able to use the 
> object for anything.  I'll do that if I have to, (or write my 
> message-passing library, or repurpose one from C), but would be 
> nice if there were another solution.

The simplest solution is to write your own wrappers of `send` and 
`receive` and have them do the casting for you.