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Yeah, bad code doesn't stop being bad code just because it is correct. Good code not only is correct, but it is obviously so. There are zero excuses in a case like this to write it in the unsafe way. Just because you know a gun is not loaded, doesn't mean you should play with it.

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Yeah if a codebase is full of stuff like this, auditing it is awful. It's like, instead of employing computers to check the details your code, force it to be done manually (in an error prone way)

This is nonsensical. When you use a function, how do you know what it will do? You guess from its name?

> auditing it is awful.

If a function specifies a requirement, you look at the callers and see if that requirement is met. If it's easy to verify in code, you can assert. Is there an easier way to audit correctness?

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