On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:31:06PM +0100, Christoph Kutzinski wrote: > Why do you want to do this? Why not just fix the compile errors?
Likely the same reason that compiler writers have spent so much time studying error recovery in parsers: to discover as many errors as possible in one iteration. Fewer iterations, each one more productive. You also get a better feel for just how buggy the code is, and for patterns of problems, by seeing everything that *doesn't* fail to compile. It's useful to be able to answer questions like, "this is happening all over the place -- is there a deeper problem?" Of course that has to be balanced against the fact that, when compiling X against broken Y, you may not get a true picture of the status of X. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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