D not considered memory safe

Dennis dkorpel at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 19:02:41 UTC 2024


On Saturday, 13 July 2024 at 18:56:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Another issue is the use of printf and its buddies. I've 
> proposed ways of making printf @safe, but you've objected to 
> them. There are several ways of making it @safe, and it's 
> reasonable to do them, but I always run into protests :-)
>
> (To clarify, I am not proposing to make printf itself safe, 
> only making calls to printf safe by adjusting its format 
> string, and flagging unsafe use of it.)

I need a link to that proposal and the rejections.


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