Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Walter Bright]

On 12/29/2022 7:37 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> I am not saying software can't be allowed to fail, just that it should fail 
> compilation, not at runtime.

In your description of pattern matching checks in this thread, the check was at 
runtime.

(Of course, we'd all like the compiler to detect all the errors at compile time. 
D does an awful lot of that.)