On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 22:56:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:13:37PM +0000, Stefan Koch via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 21:55:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
[...]
> But nobody will be building a fusion engine out of race
> conditions anytime in the foreseeable future. :-D
[...]
It's still valid though.
If something might be used by someone else it's better not to
touch it, unless one has confirmation it is not used by
someone else.
This is what shared has to enforce.
Yes. But how can the compiler statically verify this? Because
if it cannot be statically verified, then somewhere along the
line we have to trust the programmer. Ergo, it's programming by
convention, and we all know how effective that is.
[.... or it will lead] to an overly-restrictive conservative
type system that nobody will use.
I'd rather wear 5 virtual straight-jackets than spending the rest
of my life trying to observe invisble races, and wearing a real
one.
Stefan
