Re: shared - i need it to be useful

2018-10-18 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
Manu I'm also making a plea for you to write a document with your proposal which aggregates all relevant examples and objections. Then you can easily refer to it and we can introduce ppl to idea without reading a megathread.

Re: shared - i need it to be useful

2018-10-18 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 20:07:54 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:51:17 UTC, Erik van Velzen wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:26:39 UTC, Stanislav Blinov Manu said clearly that the receiving thread won't be able to read or write the po

Re: Shared - Another Thread

2018-10-18 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
lost to the sands of time. On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 20:13:49 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 20:10:18 UTC, Erik van Velzen wrote: When shared stood up in its current form, expectation was made "this will be threadsafe automatically - we'll f

Re: Shared - Another Thread

2018-10-18 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:09:42 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 16:24:39 UTC, Manu wrote: Elaborate on this... It's clearly over-ambitious if anything. What issues am I failing to address? I'm creating a situation where using shared has a meaning, is safe,

Re: shared - i need it to be useful

2018-10-18 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:26:39 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:04:58 UTC, Erik van Velzen wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 17:47:29 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Doesn't work. No matter what you show Manu or Simen here they think it's

Re: shared - i need it to be useful

2018-10-18 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 17:47:29 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 17:17:37 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Monday, 15 October 2018 at 18:46:45 UTC, Manu wrote: Assuming the rules above: "can't read or write to members", and the understanding that `shared` methods

Re: shared - i need it to be useful

2018-10-17 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
I don't have anything to add that hasn't been said yet but it's good to see some thinking on this subject. It feels like progress.

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-22 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:56:10 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:56:10 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: Walter was doing that thing that people in the US who only speak English tend to do: forgetting that other people speak other languages, and that people

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-21 Thread Erik van Velzen via Digitalmars-d
Agreed with Walter. I'm all on board with i18n but I see no need for non-ascii identifiers. Even identifiers with a non-latin origin are usually written in the latin script. As for real-world usage I've seen Cyrillic identifiers a few times in PHP.