From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T23:32:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs. constants?

On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Gennady Bystritsky wrote:
>> 
>>> For me any warning produced by my code must be fixed, and in this case the fix would be to check that constants are assigned only once.
>> 
>> You are a hero.  I wish all Ruby library developers could hear your 
>> wisdom.
> 
> I don't.  There are certain contexts where warnings are generated even 
> though the code is fine.  I'm not going to waste time fixing otherwise 
> well-written code because someone decided that a warning should be 
> generated.

I hear this quite a bit but have only ever been shown one example I agree with, based on a new 1.9 warning.  Do you have an example you could share?

James Edward Gray II