safety model in D

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el  3 de noviembre a las 16:33 me escribiste:
> SafeD is, unfortunately, not finished at the moment. I want to leave
> in place a stub that won't lock our options. Here's what we
> currently have:
> 
> module(system) calvin;
> 
> This means calvin can do unsafe things.
> 
> module(safe) susie;
> 
> This means susie commits to extra checks and therefore only a subset of D.
> 
> module hobbes;
> 
> This means hobbes abides to whatever the default safety setting is.
> 
> The default safety setting is up to the compiler. In dmd by default
> it is "system", and can be overridden with "-safe".

What's the rationale for letting the compiler decide? I can't see nothing
but trouble about this. A module will tipically be writen to be safe or
system, I think the default should be defined (I'm not sure what the
default should be though).

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