I hope there are plans for D to one day support threads, hopefully as part of a "Standard Library".  Well, my question is, suppose I wanted to spawn a thread, or have a function spawn 'n' threads, or something more complicated. Suppose I want to be ble to pass the thread starting function as a parameter to my function, as well as the params to be passed to that thread function. How exactly would I do that, or does that have yet TBA?

Speaking of standard libraries, I think that's one thing that makes Java so wonderful--I have one source of documentation for how to write a socket for any platform!  (Unfortantely, I have to write it in Java, though.)  If we deny the use of header macros, we can't rely on #ifdef WIN32 #include <winsock2.h> #else....., so standard libs are a must, i think!

 - Brent

Brent Schartung wrote:
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> I hope there are plans for D to one day support threads, hopefully as part of a "Standard Library".  Well, my question is, suppose I wanted to spawn a thread, or have a function spawn 'n' threads, or something more complicated. Suppose I want to be ble to pass the thread starting function as a parameter to my function, as well as the params to be passed to that thread function. How exactly would I do that, or does that have yet TBA?

I suspect you have to write a D prototype for a thread spawn function provided by the OS or by a C-language library. D's attribute system makes this pretty feasible.

Ditto standard libraries -- once the D compiler is stable, someone will want to write a wrapper for the C standard library and for the Windows API.

-Russell B

One think I'm bad at is library design. D at the moment has no libraries beyond the compiler helper functions. One of the great strengths of Java is its class library. D needs something like that too.

And yes, D will have good support for multithreaded programming, with synchronized statements and synchronized functions.

-Walter

Russell Bornschlegel wrote in message <3B7DB06F.1698FD66@estarcion.com>...
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>Brent Schartung wrote:
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>> I hope there are plans for D to one day support threads, hopefully as
part
>> of a "Standard Library".  Well, my question is, suppose I wanted to spawn
a
>> thread, or have a function spawn 'n' threads, or something more
complicated.
>> Suppose I want to be ble to pass the thread starting function as a
parameter
>> to my function, as well as the params to be passed to that thread
function.
>> How exactly would I do that, or does that have yet TBA?
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>I suspect you have to write a D prototype for a thread spawn function provided by the OS or by a C-language library. D's attribute system makes this pretty feasible.
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>Ditto standard libraries -- once the D compiler is stable, someone will want to write a wrapper for the C standard library and for the Windows API.
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>-Russell B

In article <9lknn2$2sig$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>One think I'm bad at is library design. D at the moment has no libraries beyond the compiler helper functions. One of the great strengths of Java is its class library. D needs something like that too.

My ideal language would easily link to Cocoa / Foundation / GnuStep, Java, Python, Smalltalk, Ruby, etc., while still enabling me to write twain plugins and other low-level non-application code.

The Cocoa / Foundation / GnuStep class libraries are worth looking into as a model of good library design. The GnuStep library is GPLed, and the Foundation framework code (in C) is available via the BSD license in Apple's Darwin open-source project.


C. Keith Ray <http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/resume2.html> <http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/xpminifaq.html>