From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T03:13:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Other languages' features in Ruby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:08 PM
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...?

Nice guess, but I don't think that's an issue... the
warnings seem to go to stderr, not stdout.

Hal

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