On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 06:29:54PM +0000, Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] > Yeah, I used to be pro-TLS by default, then got bit by it several > times and moved to the fence, and now I'm anti. > > Data races aren't actually prevented by it (maybe forcing you to > specify shared or tls would at least get you think about it though) > and lots of things mysteriously fail if you forget about it. > > You can lock the variable and everything and it still null cuz it was > tls the whole time. Oops. > > This a case where I think forcing explitness would be better than > either default, but failing that, tls by default is the more-bad > choice.
Personally I prefer avoiding globals at all. :-P But OK, sometimes you can't work around it (or it'd be too onerous). I guess maybe that's why I haven't been bitten by TLS so far. Hardly ever use it. :-D T -- "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next. -- (Stolen from the net)
