• weltensturm (8/8) Mar 12 2013 First off, is the implementation of 'shared' finished, and if not
• John Colvin (5/9) Mar 12 2013 Because there are no guarantees about what the library function

"weltensturm" <weltensturm gmail.com> writes:

First off, is the implementation of 'shared' finished, and if not 
how long roughly will it take until it's done?
If a whole class is declared shared, is it intended that each 
variable of it has to be defined shared too?
Why isn't it allowed to implicitly cast shared data to normal 
data, or will that be part of the final implementation? It's a 
bit annoying to cast everything back when using external 
libraries.

"John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 12:11:58 UTC, weltensturm wrote:
 Why isn't it allowed to implicitly cast shared data to normal 
 data, or will that be part of the final implementation? It's a 
 bit annoying to cast everything back when using external 
 libraries.

Because there are no guarantees about what the library function 
will do with the object. It ensures that you don't accidentally 
pass a shared object to a function that doesn't think about 
thread-safety.