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Also "safe" and "unsafe" have very specific meanings, not the more widely used meanings. It's not inherently dangerous to call unsafe code that is well written, it's really more a statement about who is taking responsibility for the behavior, the writer or the compiler.

I like the term "checked" and "unchecked" better but not enough to actually lobby to change them, and as a term of art they're fine.



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