On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 06:58:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5188
implements a rule defined in TDPL: synchronized classes shall
have no public members.
The motivation behind this limitation is that member accesses
in synchronized objects should not occur without some handshake
occurring. Public members would make that possible and easy.
Walter and I are on board with this change. However, it is a
breaking change so we want to gather a level of community
support before we push the button.
Thanks,
Andrei
I still have no idea why I would ever use `synchronized` (any
automatic thread synchronization is harmful in my opinion) so
change itself is irrelevant. But it may break quite some old
Java-liked 3d party code for no benefit and that would be
annoying.
