On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:45:42 -0400, Jason House
<jason.james.ho...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm really surprised by the lack of design discussion in this thread.
It's amazing how there can be huge bursts of discussion on which keyword
to use (e.g. manifest constants), but then complete silence about major
design decisions like thread safety that defines new transitive states
and a bunch of new keywords. The description even made parallels to the
(previously?) unpopular const architecture.
For the most part, this really academic threading stuff is beyond me. It
took me long enough to understand threading with mutex locks...
In any case, it didn't seem from the post that this was coming to D. It
seemed like it was for a language Bartosz was working on besides D, the
syntax doesn't even look close.
Is this planned for D2 or D3? Or not at all? I remember Walter saying he
didn't want to add umpteen different type constructor keywords, even
unique, because of the confusion it would cause.
In any case, once I decided it wasn't D related, I ignored it just like I
usually ignore bearophile's "look at what the obscureX language does"
posts (no offense bearophile).
-Steve
