Discussion Thread: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Final Review

[12345swordy]

On Monday, 6 April 2020 at 19:12:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 06:45:14PM +0000, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> Honestly, I think we'd be far more in need of a Scott Meyers 
>> to explain extern C functions being treated as safe by default 
>> (and how to avoid unintended bugs caused by this) than by the 
>> straightforward fact (well accepted e.g. by Rust users) that 
>> extern functions cannot be assumed safe, because, well, how do 
>> you prove it?
>
> I can see it already.  DIP 1028 gets merged, and the following 
> DConf Scott Meyers comes to give a talk about how @safe in D is 
> full of holes and doesn't fulfill its promises.
>
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> T

Better yet, email Scott Meyers and had him explain to Walter why 
extern C functions being mark as safe by default is a terrible 
idea.

-Alex