From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-10-14T23:17:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Different Behavior of Class Variables w.r.t ||=

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 08:12:27AM +0900,  JamesBritt wrote:
> > I think Ruby should have them on by default, and use a
> > command-line switch to suppress them.
> 
> Where do you put the switch if you've set a file as executable and run it
> without specifying the interpreter?

$VERBOSE = false

> Why not just set your RUBYOPT value to include warnings?

I think the point was to encourage people to write code that does not
generate warnings.

It might be interesting, as the number of warnings/errors increase, to
have different levels of warnings.  The default warning level could be
somewhere in the middle, and the user could increase/decrease this level
as necessary.

Paul