DIP 1028---Make @safe the Default---Community Review Round 1

[Manu]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 7:50 PM Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
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> This is the feedback thread for the first round of Community
> Review for DIP 1028, "Make @safe the Default":
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> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/1b705f8d4faa095d6d9e3a1b81d6cfa6d688554b/DIPs/DIP1028.md
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FWIW, I'm not emotional about this, but it seems like a really good
opportunity to change @system to @unsafe, since @system appears almost
nowhere in existing code (because is default).
'system' is a weird name for 'unsafe'. I've had lots of colleagues
tell me they think it doesn't make sense... and I agree. It's a silly
name, and defies the industries established terminology for no reason.
We have exactly one opportunity to correct this, and this is it.