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@Echo-8-ERA > ...pointers...would make interop with unmanaged libraries easier... No, not necessarily, because a pointer is an architecture dependent thing (and part of a grander scheme known as a memory...

@RevensofT > I believe in choice... Don't we all!! :) Just look at all the fun choices programmers have made over the years!: 1. https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/ 3. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~charlie/courses/17-214/2019-fall/slides/20191203-anti-patterns.pdf 4....

@RevensofT > When people has a freedom, some might do something stupid... ...where the harm isn't limited to themselves, and ends up doing great harm to many others. Buffer overruns,...

> I personally don't think this is valuable enough as a language feature. I think you can already enable/disable checked on an assembly level. Says the someone who is all...

VB is stuck in limbo here: `Object` really means `System.Object`, and with `Option Strict Off`, `Object` does _not_ become `System.Dynamic.DynamicObject`, it stays a `System.Object`. On that technicality, VB is aligned...

Wow! this looks cool, can hardly wait to try this out!

The Roslyn team said that the VB compiler of Visual Studio 2013 was doing it wrong in the first place: "This is a bug in the constant optimization phase of...

It may be a more compelling case to say that CBool and CDate are correct, and that the CByte thru CUShort cases (not including CStr and CObj) are wrong. Let...

Well, to each their own, I guess. I still find code like this to be super-cringy: `Option Strict Off` `Dim d As Date` `d = vbNullString` even if the above...