@trusted considered harmful

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.ca
Fri Jul 27 20:24:58 PDT 2012


On 2012-07-28 00:08:28 +0000, "David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> said:

> @trusted in its current form needs to go. Its design is badly broken, 
> as it leaks implementation details and encourages writing unsafe code.

@trusted is a dangerous thing. Since the first time I tried to use it, 
I always found it troublesome. I agree it needs to be a scope. And for 
backward compatibility, a @trusted function should be exactly the same 
as a @safe function where the whole body is wrapped in a @trusted scope.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.ca
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