From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-10-12T18:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Different Behavior of Class Variables w.r.t ||=


On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

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

How about:

"ruby bad.rb" => 17 warnings by default
"ruby -w 17 bad.rb" => no warnings
"ruby -w 16 bad.rb" => "Warning: Expected 16 warnings, but there were 17!"
"ruby -w 18 bad.rb" => "Warning: Expected 18 warnings, but there were 17!"

  -- Nikodemus