From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-10T14:14:00+09:00
Subject: warnings -w

Hello,

I asked a while back what effect the '-w' flag had.

I believe that, in response, I was told warned you about things like:

if var = 3  # '=' instead of '=='
   ...
end

But Ruby warns you about that anyways.  The man page says:

     -w   enables verbose mode without printing version message
          at the beginning. It set the `$VERBOSE' variable to
          true.

Is that all it does?  It sets $VERBOSE to true?

At first sight, Ruby seems to behave like it has the equivalent of Perl's
warnings by default.  If that's the case, that's wornderful.  I just want
to know if that is the case.

Thanks for the help,

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assisant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137