On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 15:11:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 20:30:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
Other languages like Rust or C# (or Java) have bounds check.
Plus we probably lose it in release mode, which is the mode
where lurking bugs are discovered usually days after
development ;) Some of these languages would prevent it on the
VM level/compiler level, leaving no way to shoot yourself in
the foot.
We all really need to get away from this idea that *we* should
stop *others* from shooting themselves in the foot. People are
free to do it, if they want. Who has the right to take that
choice away from me?
So let's NOT be like those other languages that just want to
control what you do.
-boundscheck=off
D rocks!
On the other hand, if my bank shoots itself in the foot it's with
my money... We must definitely have ways to do it but it must be
explicit and restricted to where it's useful. There is no need
for -boundscheck=off in D. It is always possible to disable
boundschecking locally, and that's a good thing.
