Comment by viraptor
2 months ago
Yes. I was objecting to the parent poster's "can and should be" which sounds like they think people just randomly choose where to use the unsafe decoration.
2 months ago
Yes. I was objecting to the parent poster's "can and should be" which sounds like they think people just randomly choose where to use the unsafe decoration.
The situation seems reminiscent of "using File::open to modify /proc/self/mem". It's safe to work with files, except there's this file that lets you directly violate memory safety.
I can't say I got the same feeling. To me, the "Functions like that" lead-in indicated the opposite if anything since it implies some kind of reasoned consideration of what the function is doing.