DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

[Timon Gehr]

On 24.05.20 11:10, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/23/2020 11:26 PM, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>> I don't believe that you or any other competent programmer greenwashes 
>> safety critical code.  Regardless, the safety conscious must review 
>> their dependencies whatever default applies.
> 
> That's the theory. But we do, for various reasons. I've seen it a lot 
> over the years, at all levels of programming ability. It particularly 
> happens when someone needs to get the code compiling and running, and 
> the error message is perceived as a nuisance getting in the way.
> 
> We should be very careful about adding nuisances to the language that 
> make it easier to greenwash than to do the job correctly.

Implicit greenwashing by the compiler is a nuisance that makes it harder 
to do the job correctly and easier to do the wrong thing.