From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-08T03:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] ruby --quiet; was Re: ANDCALL / iff? / &? (was Re: ruby-dev summary 28206-28273)

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Evan Webb wrote:

> I think you've hit the point exactly, -w is only really useful at
> development time. At runtime, you never want the warnings popping out
> because you've already delt with them. Perhaps thats the reason matz has
> left -w off by default (matz, care to chime in?), so it can be used as
> runtime lint.
>
> The main problem occurs when people want warns to occur at runtime.
> Suddenly, they're getting warnings for perfectly valid code that works great
> just so that some other warning somewhere else might be emitted.  The crux
> of this is that the warning system needs a bit of an overhaul (Dan Berger
> has been requesting this for quite a while). The overhaul might include the
> ability to turn certain warnings on or off, or might include that much
> fabled ruby lint.

agreed.  but -w is not 'off' be default.  it's as in -W1.

-a

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