Better branding of -betterC
Siemargl
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Fri Nov 13 07:58:56 UTC 2020
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 21:22:37 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar
wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 18:33:39 UTC, Paul Backus
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 18:07:08 UTC, Dibyendu
>
>>
>>> Also the compiler cannot assist you in making this choice.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any compiler, for any language, than can
>> provide this kind of assistance. Until we invent AIs that can
>> write code for us, we programmers are going to be stuck making
>> our own choices. :)
>
> Sorry I didn't make myself clear.
> In Rust for example unions are unsafe whereas enumerated types
> aren't (caveat: this is based on my imperfect knowledge). So
> having it in the language allows the compiler to better infer
> safety of the code, and thus help the programmer make better
> choices.
I think you are mistaken. Rust only helps to make the only choice
possible.
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