Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-07-12 06:37, Walter Bright wrote:

> The example you gave of .ptr resulting in unsafe code has been in
> bugzilla since 2013, and has an open PR on it to fix it.
>
>   https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11176
>
> You didn't submit it to bugzilla - if you don't post problems to
> bugzilla, most likely they will get overlooked, and you will get
> frustrated. @safe issues are tagged with the 'safe' keyword in bugzilla.
> If you know of other bugs with @safe, and they aren't in the list,
> please add them. Saying generically that @safe has holes in it is
> useless information since it is not actionable and nobody keeps track of
> bugs posted on the n.g. nor are they even findable if you suspect
> they're there.

Not sure if this is what deadalnix thinks about but @safe should be a 
whitelist of features, not a blacklist [1]. But you already closed that 
bug report as invalid.

[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12941

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/Jacob Carlborg