Re:The most dangerous code in the world
by crawfordcomeaux on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @11:09PM
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The effort it takes to do something that's unsafe should be laborious and not simply require adding a single line of code.
This API doesn't fit with the philosophy because it takes a negligible amount of work to walk down the unsafe path.
It takes more effort to override the default and shoot yourself in the foot.
Granted, it could be better. I guess that strange option could be a completely separate command parameter with a very obvious name. Then again, it's such a strange behaviour, maybe it just shouldn't even be an option at all.