Help, what is the code mean?
data pulverizer
data.pulverizer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 15:28:53 UTC 2020
On Monday, 27 April 2020 at 13:36:25 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 27 April 2020 at 13:29:08 UTC, lilijreey wrote:
>> Hi:
>> In dlang core.thread.osthread has below code, the 654 line
>> code i can understand why write () first, and {m_fn = fn;}()
>> do what?
>
> The stdlib uses that pattern from time to time to indicate an
> unsafe block in an otherwise safe function.
>
> Specifically it is a little trusted inline function being
> immediately called.
>
> It is something that should be avoided whenever you can.
I'm probably not the first person to say this but. Isn't @trusted
an odd label to give unsafe functions and open to abuse by
unscrupulous programmers? It almost says "nothing to see, this
here piece of code is a-ok". Shouldn't it be explicitly labelled
as @unsafe?
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