Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 12 20:57:00 PDT 2016


On 13/07/16 03:29, Walter Bright wrote:
>So doing this would
> require knowledge that other threads aren't accessing it.
>

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

Yes, casting away protection should be done only when you know what 
you're doing. If you make a mistake, bad things will happen.

I think a system programming language cannot prevent the user from doing 
dangerous things. You will simply not be leaving enough rope.

Shachar


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