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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Accessibility checks
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:51:37 -0500
Date: 2013-07-18T23:51:37-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ksagkq$odf$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ks7d92$iv7$1@dont-email.me

"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
news:ks7d92$iv7$1@dont-email.me...
> On 07/17/2013 04:44 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> It would be tempting to dump the entire accessibility mess into trash, 
>> but
>> the only alternative is erroneousness, which is too awful to contemplate.
>
> Isn't that what you get when you use 'Unchecked_Access?

True, but in the cases where accessibility works, it would be a step 
backwards to remove protection. And at least some programmers claim that 
accessibility works for them (I presume that they are using it in contexts 
where static checking will work).

                                              Randy.


      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-19  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-17 20:09 Accessibility checks Florian Weimer
2013-07-17 20:20 ` Alan Jump
2013-07-17 21:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-17 23:44   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-18  0:39     ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-18  7:14       ` Simon Wright
2013-07-19  8:41         ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-19  4:48       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-22  6:11       ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-07-22  9:03         ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-24 13:01           ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-07-24 13:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-29  6:18               ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-07-18  0:41     ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-19  4:51       ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
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