Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 11 18:28:31 PDT 2016


On 7/11/2016 5:15 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 21:52:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> The root problem is that "@safe guarantee memory safety and if it
>>> doesn't it is a bug" provides no information as to what is the bug here
>>> and no actionable items as to how to fix it, or even as to what needs
>>> fixing.
>>
>> It's kind of a meaningless criticism. Any piece of code has a bug if
>> it doesn't meet the specification, and there's no way to verify it
>> meets the specification short of proofs, and if anyone wants to work
>> on proofs I'm all for it.
>>
>> In the meantime, please post all holes found to bugzilla and tag them
>> with the 'safe' keyword.
>
> You know, there is a saying: "When the wise point at the moon, the idiot
> look at the finger". I can't force you to look at the moon, I can only
> point at it.

I don't see anything actionable in your comment.


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