Jason House wrote:
Extrawurst Wrote:
But why is it that since 2.020 i cannot name a package "shared" anymore?
moudle shared.foo;
dmd: "Identifier expected following module"
WTF ?
Because shared is now a keyword.
Ok, what is it for ? Where is it documented ? Or is it another reserved
keyword like "macro" is ?
There was a long discussion on digitalmars.d about this. It's definitely
coming in the short term. It was on Walter's top 5 a week or so ago... along
with integrating druntime, ref return values, and implementing immutable. I
don't recall the whole list, but he's definitely working on this.
This is part of the change to allow thread local storage and have non-local
objects marked as shared. Shared objects would have a number of volatile-like
properties. I'm sure I've butchered the whole topic in trying to do a summary
in a sentence or two, but it should give you the general idea of what it is and
why the word has become a keyword.
Ok thank you for the summary.
