UB in D

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 9 22:06:32 PDT 2016


On 7/9/16 11:52 PM, Observer wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:29:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> You're overthinking this. Undefined is undefined. We're done here.
>
> Andrei, you're underthinking this.  You're treating it like an
> elegant academic exercise in an ivory tower, without consideration
> for the practical realities of using the language productively
> (i.e., getting direct feedback when the programmer makes mistakes,
> which we all do, so s/he doesn't need to spend hours in a debugger).

Oh, I'm all for defining formerly undefined behavior. But don't call it 
undefined. I'm just fact checking over here. -- Andrei



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