"Rainer Deyke" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > daoryn wrote: >> You missed the point: theres an annoying bug in DMD and a fix has >> been available for it for 1 year and its still accumulating dust on >> bugzilla. The Original Author is not complaining about C's author, >> he's complaining about a bug in the compiler. > > No, I completely agree with the original post. '-w' is broken. We all > know that. I'm just forestalling any attempt to shift the blame to the > author of C. > > A conforming D implementation is allowed to warn about anything it wants > to. A conforming D implementation is not allowed to turn these warnings > into errors, because that breaks valid code. Therefore DMD with '-w' is > not a conforming D implementation. >
Heh, I'm starting to think I should have chosen X, Y and Z for my example. Here am I reading replies to my own message, I come across "C's author" and I start thinking "K&R" (Argh, more letters! ;) )
