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Re:Maintain It with Zig by pjmlp on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:08PM (#28463089)
If you read Oberon documentation, modules importing SYSTEM are tainted and considered unsafe.

Just like Modula-2 already does it.

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Re:Maintain It with Zig by jhgb on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:19PM (#28463204)
Well...that's what I meant. But which one is it, then?
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Re:Maintain It with Zig by pjmlp on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:06AM (#28466808)
Just like the languages that have unsafe code blocks it is relatively easy to track down unsafe modules, same thing.

And just like languages with unsafe code blocks, there are compilers that have switches to forbid the use of tainted modules unless explicitly allowed.

In any case, way better than what C, C++ and Objective-C offer, regarding security per line of code.

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