Stanislav Blinov:
The whole 'shared' concept being incomplete in the language is
a shame. Hopefully things will get better in the near future.
As for slicing syntax for shared arrays, personally I think it
should be disallowed, just like operators for shared scalars.
But that would mean that calling front() would be illegal too,
thus forcing the cast on the whole array when it's safe to do
so... Oh, there is still much to discuss on this matter.
I am not seeing much discussion on such topics in the near
future. It's one of the most significant bugs of D (bigger than
the unimplemented "scope").
This is why Andrei lately is not fond of large discussions about
little enhancement requests in the main D newsgroup: there are
plenty of significant parts still unfinished.
Bye,
bearophile
