On 5/23/2020 11:26 PM, Bruce Carneal wrote:
I don't believe that you or any other competent programmer greenwashes safety critical code. Regardless, the safety conscious must review their dependencies whatever default applies.
That's the theory. But we do, for various reasons. I've seen it a lot over the years, at all levels of programming ability. It particularly happens when someone needs to get the code compiling and running, and the error message is perceived as a nuisance getting in the way.
We should be very careful about adding nuisances to the language that make it easier to greenwash than to do the job correctly.
