Sorry and Goodbye...

[claptrap]

On Sunday, 30 May 2021 at 22:29:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/29/2021 3:19 PM, Avrina wrote:
>> What is the meaning of trust but verify?
>> In the study of programming languages, the phrase has been 
>> used to describe the implementation of downcasting: the 
>> compiler trusts that the downcast term will be of the desired 
>> type, but this assumption is verified at runtime in order to 
>> avoid undefined behavior.
>
>
> It means you trust people to do the right thing, but still 
> verify that it gets done right.

Its an awful proverb, it's like 1984 double speak. I mean if I 
hire a PI to check up on my wife, I cant very well claim that I 
trust her.