Discussion Thread: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Final Review

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Apr 6 19:12:18 UTC 2020


On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 06:45:14PM +0000, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Honestly, I think we'd be far more in need of a Scott Meyers to
> explain extern C functions being treated as safe by default (and how
> to avoid unintended bugs caused by this) than by the straightforward
> fact (well accepted e.g. by Rust users) that extern functions cannot
> be assumed safe, because, well, how do you prove it?

I can see it already.  DIP 1028 gets merged, and the following DConf
Scott Meyers comes to give a talk about how @safe in D is full of holes
and doesn't fulfill its promises.


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