On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 22:56:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/26/2017 3:54 AM, codephantom wrote:
I simply have to 'forget' to annotate with @safe
Not annotating with @safe is mechanically checkable as well.
If I were trying to create a marketing campaign for D, as being a
safe language, then @safe being default would be the cornerstone
of such a campaign.
Then you cannot 'forget' to use it, and there would be no need to
check anything.
Then, anything not meant to be '@safe' has to be explicately,
intentionally, marked as something else...and you simply cannot
'forget' to do that, otherwise the code just won't compile
correctly (I assume).
Since @safe is not default, such a marketing campaign would be
pointless.
As such, as better and more realistic marketing campaign would
promote D as being primarily a flexible language, with 'safe'
features you can make use of, if you need them, some of which are
on by default, and some which are not.
