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

[Atila Neves]

On Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 17:02:51 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 16:19:44 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 14:24:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
>> wrote:
>>> But D's runtime checks are also a valid solution.
>>
>> We can do better that at compile time.
>>
> But not always though. There are scenarios where you have to 
> rely on runtime checks, such as user driven input for example.

Sure.

> Side note: There should be a significant push for runtime 
> reflection if we are pushing for safe by default. I recall 
> Andrei talking about it in one of his presentation on how the 
> compile time reflection will lay ground work for runtime 
> reflection. I have not seen any developments on that front. 
> Reason being that classes can inherent from other classes.

I'm currently working on this.