From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-12T12:15:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Different Behavior of Class Variables w.r.t ||=


From: "Harry Ohlsen" <harryo@zip.com.au>


> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:24, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I like that idea!  It would be interesting to see how many messages would
> appear on the list if that change was made without mentioning it in the next
> version that's released :-).
>
> I'm going to go and replace my ruby executable with a script that calls the
> original with "-w", to see whether I start picking up problems in code I've
> already written !!
>
> H.

As James pointed out, you can use the RUBYOPT environment variable.

Gavin