On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/07/12 21:18, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
1. Mark my library as Trustworthy even though I don't have sufficient
proof. This severely weakens the guarantees of Safe Haskell.
2. Mark my library as Unsafe. But then people can't use it to write Safe
code and will complain.

The trouble is that I have a strong incentive to solve the problem
arising from 2 by doing 1. Oops.

The idea is that you do (1).

And now I'm having a "so what's the point?" moment?  All this effort so we can just mark random stuff as Trusted anyway?

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