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> Unmarked functions default to public in Solidity

Facepalm

Wasn't this lesson learned long ago? C# defaults to private on unmarked members. Why would you ever want to default public?

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It was designed to be like Javascript. Of all languages...

Wouldn't it make more sense to design it like Haskell? or something even more strict? A little bit of extra work seems like a small price to pay to prevent millions being stolen from your wallet because of a silly mistake like this...

In Haskell everything is public by default unless you specify exports for the module.

But it also has a statically checked type system.

I think if done in Haskell how good or bad it is depends on the chosen abstraction for effects not Haskell itself.

Haskell is a good basis but the developers need to make the API fool proof. E.g. expose limited effects rather than a big fat "IO" type.

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