DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

[Bruce Carneal]

On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 21:38:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 21:18:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The idea is the simple, general rule that:
>
> There's already exceptions to that.
>
> public public void foo() {}
>
> is an error, whereas
>
> public:
>   public void foo() {}
>
> is not.
>
>> Having a simple, general rule with maybe a less favorable 
>> effect here and there is preferable to a complex set of 
>> special cases that try to do the optimal thing in each case.
>
> Often many things can be a simple, general rule based on how 
> you word it.
>
> Let's say "attribute: changes the default attribute set of 
> non-inferred subsequent declarations. attribute{} changes the 
> default attribute set of non-inferred child declarations."
>
> That is simple and covers the cases sensibly. Big step up from 
> where we are today.

This seems like a good idea. Simple and enabling.