On: C++ Safety, in Context

[gpderetta]

> The thing though is that these checks are NOT free and the overhead is not justified for all use cases so forcing them on everyone is not appropriate for C++.

Well, that's why they should be a flag. The question is whether it should be enabled by default or not.

[fanf2 → gpderetta]

It should be enabled by default, and if you want to index without bounds checking you should have to write something like a.unsafe_at(i)