Patronizing Language Design?

[Rainer Deyke]

Walter Bright wrote:
> What are your experiences?

Not all safety features are patronizing.  Safety features allow the
compiler to partially check the correctness of the program.  Patronizing
safety features prevent the programmer from doing their job.

Having no way to specify const data is dangerous.  Having no way to cast
 away 'const' is patronizing.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com