On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:03:04PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] > increasingly I agree with Walter's take on warnings (that they > shouldn't exist at all - something is an error or it isn't; none of > this halfway stuff). Warnings are problematic in that a good > programmer will _never_ leave them in their code and yet so many > programmers do. So, they become useless noise. The _only_ advantage to > them is that they can be used for stupid stuff like unreachable code, > allowing you to leave warnings while editing code but remove them when > your done. I don't really even like that though, truth be told. [...]
The other advantage is that they let you identify code written by incompetent programmers. T -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that address all questions by piling on ridiculous internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex." -- Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev
