On 2009-06-10 20:14:25 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> said:
Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2009-06-10 17:38:55 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> said:
* there is nothing to improve threads, further demotivating support for
Deadlock-Oriented Programming (DOP) in D
On the contrary. I believe they're doing nothing because their hands are tied.
They cannot do much for multithreading at the language level without
creating breaking changes.
Actually they could. For example, introducing qualifiers that add
restrictions would be backwards-compatible.
Even if it is not a breaking change at the language level, to be really
useful you have to update the standard library to use those restricting
keywords where it makes sense, thus adding restrictions existing parts
of the standard library and breaking things. See why they didn't
implement 'const':
<http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4211070>
* Adding const is too late now. Had this been added from 1.0,
the situation could have been different.
[...]
* Compatibility is a very important feature of the JDK.
Arguably, the collection classes should be modified to
indicate that the elements are const. That would
require all existing implementations to be updated in
the same way, effectively breaking all existing non-JDK
implementations of the collection interfaces. Similarly,
hashCode would have to be const, breaking the current
implementation of String.
--
Michel Fortin
michel.for...@michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
