DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

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On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 06:55:31 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] 
wrote:
> On Monday, 25 May 2020 at 23:39:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> [..]
>
> Thank you, Andrei, you've put this quite eloquently. With more 
> than 200+ replies, unfortunately, this whole discussion looks 
> like an excessively inefficient use of the community's time.
>
> One way to resolve this stalemate (which I've proposed in 
> another post) is to split off the point of contention from 
> DIP1028. In other words, amend the newly proposed compiler 
> switch `-preview=safedefault` to not change the meaning of 
> non-extern(D) function declarations and introduce a new 
> compiler switch `-implicitly-{safe,trusted}-extern-fn-decls` 
> (*) that adds the automatic "greenwashing" functionality that 
> Walter desires so much.

If the greenwashing part was separated and delayed it would give 
time to find out if Walters hypothesis about people just doing it 
themselves is true.