[OT] @grammar

Jonathan M Davis newsgroup.d at jmdavisprog.com
Mon Mar 30 23:39:17 UTC 2020


On Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:24:01 AM MDT Steven Schveighoffer via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I always look at @safe as the word "safe", not "at-safe". But I see a
> lot of people writing stuff like:
>
> "You should put an @safe tag on it"
>
> which reads horribly to me:
>
> "You should put an safe tag on it"
>
> Am I the only one who cringes to read this? I bite my tongue and don't
> respond normally, because I'm sure that people read it the other way.

Actually, I'm surprised that anyone would effectively ignore the @.
Personally, I definitely consider it to be at-safe and not safe, since it's
@safe, not safe. And that's how I would refer to it in any verbal
conversation.

- Jonathan M Davis





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