On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well, for sure the checks will produce false positives. That is always a
> > balance between false positives and false negatives (i.e. not reported
> > problems).
>
> However, having a number of false positives can clutter up the list of
> problems and make the whole process ineffective.
>
> How about having a tag like "note=IGNORE <test>" to tell the validator
> to ignore a specific false positive?
>
> Matthias
>
That's a nice idea, sort of in line with the @SuppressWarnings annotation in
Java but I think it should get its own key ("validator_ignore"="no_name;
overlapping_ways") instead of overloading the note key. It could be used for
all the validators.
Karl
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