• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Dec 13 2008

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Zoran Isailovski:
 I like the approach of Ada, Oberon, and (I think) Modula-3 - all of which have
successfully been used for system programming - in that they allow unsafe
constructs ONLY in modules specifically marked as "unsafe".<


This is already becoming true in the last version of DMD. But I don't like this
solution. See the main D newsgroup, I'm about to post a note there.


 I think, providing unsafe features through clumsy syntax makes things worse,
because it reduces readability where readability is most wanted - in sensible,
unsafe places (think "code reviews").<


I agree. But the situation isn't that bad.

Bye,
bearophile