safe vs. unsafe (Was: Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/07/12 21:18, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>
>> 1. Mark my library as Trustworthy even though I don't have sufficient
>> proof. This severely weakens the guarantees of Safe Haskell.
>> 2. Mark my library as Unsafe. But then people can't use it to write Safe
>> code and will complain.
>>
>> The trouble is that I have a strong incentive to solve the problem
>> arising from 2 by doing 1. Oops.
>>
>
> The idea is that you do (1).


And now I'm having a "so what's the point?" moment?  All this effort so we
can just mark random stuff as Trusted anyway?

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