On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:56:18AM +0200, Erich Focht wrote:
> Hmmm, your WARNING looks for me like an unsafe GO decision. But it is a GO
> decision. Only it has attached with it a warning message. So you are well
> within the GO / NO GO pattern.
> 
> Actually a WARNING is only necessary because the check is not precise enough
> about the state of the system. If you'd have precise information about the
> system, you could make a clean decision and _know_ whether this is a GO or a
> NO GO. Without the warning message. (And I understand that such cases with
> imprecise checks can exist).

My feeling is that a WARNING should, by default, imply NO GO. The user
should then have the option to repeat the attempt with a parameter
implying: "I have looked into that (specific) WARNING and have decided
to proceed anyway."

-- 
Ted Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://psg.com/~ted/
"If you don't look, you don't know."
    Dr. Sam Ting, Nobel laureate experimental physicist.

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