Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 21.05.2011 09:07:
On 05/21/2011 07:57 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
In the future, I think we should be more careful with potentially
harmful options, and always prefer safety over speed - *especially* when
we know that the safe way will improve at some point.
There wasn't a point where anybody wasn't careful about this;
Sorry if I sounded offensive. It just felt too wrong from today's POV
(which, I hope, is properly reflected by my paragraph above).
it is simply
something that was inherited from Pyrex. The nonecheck directive came much
later.
Well, it wouldn't have been the first time we change the default behaviour
from the way Pyrex originally worked to something we deem more correct.
Looks like we missed that opportunity back then.
I think Vitja's "uninitialised" branch is our way out of this.
Stefan
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