X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/blobdiff_plain/7f5e175b23e3681e3601d3717b9d0aa08d579289..90a9ce4a22b6b905715b2d2c13764879a101f623:/personal/_posts/2018-08-22-two-kinds-of-invariants.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/personal/_posts/2018-08-22-two-kinds-of-invariants.md b/personal/_posts/2018-08-22-two-kinds-of-invariants.md index b403c70..a90dc47 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2018-08-22-two-kinds-of-invariants.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2018-08-22-two-kinds-of-invariants.md @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ My gut feeling is that it should not be (i.e., validity should require that `i32 I have talked about two kinds of invariants that come with every type, the safety invariant and the validity invariant. For unsafe code authors, the slogan summarizing this post is: -> *You must always be valid, but you must not always be safe.* +> *You must always be valid, but you must only be safe in safe code.* I think we have enough experience writing unsafe code at this point that we can reasonably discuss which validity invariants make sense and which do not -- and I think that it is high time that we do so, because many unsafe code authors are wondering about these exact things all the time.