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 title: The Scope of Unsafe
 categories: research rust
 reddit: /rust/comments/4065l2/the_scope_of_unsafe/
 title: The Scope of Unsafe
 categories: research rust
 reddit: /rust/comments/4065l2/the_scope_of_unsafe/

+license: CC BY-SA 4.0
+license-url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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 I'd like to talk about an important aspect of dealing with unsafe code, that still regularly seems to catch people on the wrong foot:
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 I'd like to talk about an important aspect of dealing with unsafe code, that still regularly seems to catch people on the wrong foot:


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 It turns out that the underlying reason for this observation is also a nice illustration for the concept of *semantic types* that comes up in my [work on formalizing Rust]({% post_url 2015-10-12-formalizing-rust %}) (or rather, its type system).
 Finally, this discussion will once again lead us to realize that we rely on our type systems to provide much more than just type safety.
 
 It turns out that the underlying reason for this observation is also a nice illustration for the concept of *semantic types* that comes up in my [work on formalizing Rust]({% post_url 2015-10-12-formalizing-rust %}) (or rather, its type system).
 Finally, this discussion will once again lead us to realize that we rely on our type systems to provide much more than just type safety.
 

-**Update (Jan 11th):** Clarified the role of privacy; argued why `evil` is the problem.
+**Update (2016-01-11):** Clarified the role of privacy; argued why `evil` is the problem.

 
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