Andrei's 2010 book states that the default safety level can be changed from @system to @safe by means of a -safe command line switch, in the case of the DMD compiler. Now I've tried it and it's not recognized.

Was this feature remove on purpose? I could imagine that.

The default safety keeps being @system, right?

PS I've found this old thread... I'm looking for a bit less long answer to read ;)
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hcqb44$1nc9$1@digitalmars.com

On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 17:48:04 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> Was this feature remove on purpose? I could imagine that.

Yes, you instead mark individual things @safe (or you can do a @safe { functions here } group or @safe: at the top of a scope).

this kinda sucks but alas.

On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 17:48:04 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> Andrei's 2010 book states that the default safety level can be changed from @system to @safe by means of a -safe command line switch, in the case of the DMD compiler. Now I've tried it and it's not recognized.
>
> Was this feature remove on purpose? I could imagine that.
>
> The default safety keeps being @system, right?
>
> PS I've found this old thread... I'm looking for a bit less long answer to read ;)
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hcqb44$1nc9$1@digitalmars.com

Don't know the history, but as recently as a week ago Andrei has argued against such behavior has balkanizing the community.

On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 00:48:39 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> Don't know the history, but as recently as a week ago Andrei has argued against such behavior has balkanizing the community.

What behavior? Anyway my question is answered, thanks :)

On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 01:13:26 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> What behavior? Anyway my question is answered, thanks :)

What behavior is a rhetorical question, meaning that I don't really want it to be answered 0;)

On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 01:13:26 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 00:48:39 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> Don't know the history, but as recently as a week ago Andrei has argued against such behavior has balkanizing the community.
>
> What behavior? Anyway my question is answered, thanks :)

Changing default behavior which results in incompatible code.

On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 01:17:57 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 01:13:26 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 00:48:39 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>>> Don't know the history, but as recently as a week ago Andrei has argued against such behavior has balkanizing the community.
>>
>> What behavior? Anyway my question is answered, thanks :)
>
> Changing default behavior which results in incompatible code.

Aha of course I agree. No language wants to do this, it goes beyond what is referred as community. But yeah look what happened to Python 3.x