On 24.05.20 11:10, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
Implicit greenwashing by the compiler is a nuisance that makes it harder
to do the job correctly and easier to do the wrong thing.
