For the record, I disagree with this basic sentiment - most languages have two levels of warnings, and it's always best to avoid any of them if possible.
On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Rein Henrichs wrote: > > The warnings generated with the -w flag are rather "paranoid". I > expect that nearly 100% of Ruby code (rubygems, rails, many , etc) in > the wild would generate multiple such warnings, especially the warning > for accessing an undefined instance variable. It is *extremely* common > in Ruby to take advantage of the behavior of undefined instance > variables (that they return nil). > > There are other warnings, like for instance the warning you get when > you try to redefine a constant, that are displayed whether the code is > run in -w mode or not. These are the warnings that should be avoided. > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Robin Bowes <[email protected] > > wrote: >> >> On 14/10/09 22:51, Luke Kanies wrote: >>> >>> I personally disagree that these idioms qualify as code smell, >>> since I >>> use them to avoid a warning (ruby -w is essentially entirely useless >>> if you don't tend to use this idiom). >>> >>> I appear to be "unanimously" overridden, though, so I'll bow out of >>> that part of the discussion. >> >> I don't really know ruby, but if it's anything like perl (I have a >> perl >> background) then warnings are very useful. >> >> It's accepted PBP [1] to run all code with warnings enabled and to >> write >> your code so that it doesn't generate warnings. >> >> Perhaps ruby is different? If it is, then I'm not qualified to speak >> about this. If not, I agree with Luke. >> >> R. >> >> [1] perl best practice >> >>> >> > > > > -- > Rein Henrichs > http://reductivelabs.com > > > -- It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. -- Stephen Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
