On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 12:28:16 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 09:21:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
He did unfortunately manage to convince Atila, so the DIP has
been accepted, but based on the discussions, I think that you
may be the only person I've seen say anything positive about
the DIP treating extern(C) functions as @safe.
- Jonathan M Davis
I think Walter had to make a tough call with many tradeoffs.
The defining feature of engineering I would say.
Is he wrong? Maybe, I don't know. The obvious path is far from
always being a winner.
A winner for what. The reasoning given doesn't make sense. Lots
of people have pointed that out, and Walter has yet to expand on
that.
If it does come back to haunt him, he can always add a DIP to
make extern(!D) @system by default. It won't invalidate any
work.
That's worse. It'll cause huge breakage again if you need to
convert extern(C) back to @system after it was converted to
@safe. If @system by default proves to be a mistake, you can just
flip it to @safe and it won't break any code. Why take a gamble
on something that can't be rationalized?
