[dmd-concurrency] is shared going to be a type modifier?

[Steve Schveighoffer]

I'm not quite understanding everything being discussed here, because I came into this discussion quite late, but is shared going to remain a type modifier?

People are mentioning shared as a storage class on member variables, but I thought shared was going to be like const, where it transitively affects all members.  I thought a shared member function is one which the 'this' pointer is marked as shared, similar to a const function.  If that's the case, aren't all unmarked variables in a class shared?  Why the need to mark them?  And how do you have a 'partially shared' class where some members are marked shared and some are not?

I'm really confused :)

-Steve