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

Guillaume Piolat first.last at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 11:39:40 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at 06:24:11 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Monday, 6 January 2020 at 23:59:28 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> Well all feedback I've received is that it fails at the rule 
>> of least
>> surprise.
>
> The feedback is incomplete. I have disliked "unsafe" since C# 
> and know a few people who do as well. One of C# creators even 
> admitted publicly that "unsafe" was a misnomer.

I like "@system" as a name.
I'll live almost entirely in @system since pointers seems to 
perform well (not the least is that you are guaranteed no bounds 
check).

@system code isn't necessarily broken, and I don't necessarily 
want to read "unsafe" all day.


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