Directionality controls for malicious code

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Fri Dec 3 07:37:34 CST 2021


> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 14:29:56 +0100
> From: Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli at erratique.ch>
> Cc: unicode at corp.unicode.org
> 
> On 3 December 2021 at 14:04:51, Eli Zaretskii (eliz at gnu.org) wrote:
> 
> > Editors have better chance to catch user's attention. 
> 
> A compiler error catches your attention very quickly :-)

We've gone a full circle now: flagging those as errors, when
signal-to-noise ratio is low, is not a good idea.  Users will turn the
errors/warnings off, and that's the end of it.

> > Besides, what about the cases when you get a program compiled by
> > someone else and review its sources to see if you can trust it?
> 
> Personally I don't think that's a super interesting use case.

It happens in my experience almost every day.  YMMV, of course.


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