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> I have an obsession with unsafe example code:

It is perfectly OK for example code to be unsafe. You do not wear a parachute when you learn to fly using a simulator. You realize that things will become more serious and complicated in the future, but you have to start with something simple and unsafe, no big deal. Otherwise you will never see the consequences of unsafe code in simple cases.

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I think you underestimate how many people blindly copy examples without understanding them. Safe example code results in more correct programs.

> I think you underestimate how many people blindly copy examples without understanding them. Safe example code results in more correct programs.

Even if this is true, the reasoning here is disturbingly short-sighted. Copying code that you do not understand is unacceptable behavior, and I'd say the sooner it blows up in your face, the better. The goal of code examples is to illustrate how things work in a simplified way, and code without error checks is often easier to understand at first. Imagine a hello world with all the possible error checks. That would be incomprehensible.

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