Manu's `shared` vs the @trusted promise

Dukc ajieskola at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 11:24:27 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 22:03:00 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> The @trusted contract says that an @trusted function must be 
> safe when called from an @safe function. That calling @safe 
> function might be located in the same module, meaning it might 
> have the same level of access as the @trusted function.
>
> That means, Atomic.incr is invalid. It's invalid whether 
> Atomic.badboy exists or not. It's invalid because we can even 
> possibly write an Atomic.badboy. That's my interpretation of 
> the spec, at least.

Frankly, this does not sound credible. According to this 
rationale, array access should be @system too, because it relies 
on the array not giving direct access to its length to the user, 
which would also in itself be @safe.


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