Bad array indexing is considered deadly

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 4 June 2017 at 19:12:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-06-04 20:15, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 15:19:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> Array bound accesses should be easy to intercept and have 
>>> them just
>>> kill the current thread.
>>
>> Ideally, fiber, as well.  Probably the real ideal for this 
>> sort of
>> problem is to be able to be as close as possible to Erlang, 
>> where errors
>> bring down the particular task in progress, but not the 
>> application that
>> spawned the task.
>
> Erlang has the philosophy of share nothing between processes 
> (green processes), or task as you call it here. All allocations 
> are process local, that makes it easier to know that a failing 
> process doesn't affect any other process.

If I'm not wrong, it also uses a VM, also if there's the 
availability of a native code compiler...
If a VM is involved, it's another game...

/Paolo