On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:41 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Benno wrote: > > > Does anyone want to convince me otherwise? > > I have seen bugs in GNU Arch and Ecartis (mailing list manager) > that were caused by a variable in an outer scope being shadowed > in an inner scope. > > If -Wshadow catches on single bug its worth living with or > rather working around any spurious warnings. > > I wouldn't cut C code without it.
I can't stand it, the namespace is way too polluted to ever consider using it. Scope is there for a reason : so that you *can* use names that resolve elsewhere. If you don't want scope, use assembler :). Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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