IMHO it should be a compiler error. This is just so loose... a wheel fell off.

A wheel is generous. This seems more like inviting the computing equivalent of spilling twenty thousand tons of crude into the sea, which then promptly catch fire.

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catlifeonmars 4 days ago | parent [-]

Eh it’s about the same level of footgun you might see in C99. It’s not great but you’re being hyperbolic if you ask me.

	▲	ShroudedNight 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I agree that most scenarios are not going to be so perilous. However, GOTO FAIL[1] would fit your C99 foot gun description neatly, with repercussions that would approach the peril of my metaphor within at least an order of magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable_code#goto_fail_bug