From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T03:08:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Other languages' features in Ruby

> Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Just put "#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w" at the start of all your scripts. As
> > Matz has mused before, it should have been compulsory (with an option to
> > turn it *off*)
>
> It seems to me that that could be done at any point, without 'breaking'
> anything (your code will still run; it'll just spit out warnings). What
> are the cons?


Processes calling ruby scripts as subprocesses and scraping their output
might have to be retooled if they start getting new warnings that weren't
there...?