safety model in D (A quick question)

[AJ]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> SafeD is, unfortunately, not finished at the moment. I want to leave
> in place a stub that won't lock our options. Here's what we currently
> have:

Is the whole SafeD thing trying to do something similar to Microsoft's 
"managed/unmanaged" code thing? I don't know much about it, but I had 
relegated the managed/unmanaged thing to being C++-like (unmanaged) or 
Java-like (managed). "Sandboxing", in short.