From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-12T04:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Different Behavior of Class Variables w.r.t ||=


From: "Kent Dahl" <kentda@stud.ntnu.no>

> Kent Dahl wrote:
>
> .... of course, every Ruby Nuby should run with -w, which would warn
> about this. Now, if only I could get into the habit of doing the same.
> :-)
>

Funny, in every language I know, warnings are off by default, and then people
have to constantly advise other people to turn them on.

I think Ruby should have them on by default, and use a command-line switch to
suppress them.

Gavin