<div>On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 18:08 Jon Gilbert via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div></div><div>See below.</div><div><br>On Dec 6, 2017, at 02:45, Nick Keets via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Apologies, I may have misunderstood you. What I wanted to say is that I see no problem allowing "dangerous" stuff that may be abused. </div></blockquote><br><div>You see no problem with danger and abuse?</div><div><br></div><div>I guess we have differing philosophies...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://developer.apple.com/swift/" target="_blank">https://developer.apple.com/swift/</a> states:</div><div><br></div><div>“<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Swift eliminates entire classes of unsafe code.”</span></div><div><br></div><div>Lets keep it that way.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m all for this proposal if it can be tweaked to where any of the dangerous invocations contain the word, “Unsafe”, or equivalent.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Again, in Swift, “safety” means something very specific. Trapping at runtime is safe; in fact, trapping at runtime is *precisely the means by which safety is achieved* in the case of integer overflow and array indexing. This proposal introduces nothing that is unsafe.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div><div>~Jon</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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