From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2003-08-20T00:12:47+09:00
Subject: Re: $VERBOSE=true returns warnings from standard library


On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 09:18 AM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> Could we not make it a rule that stuff in the standard library has to
>> meet a basic standard? Rather than disable warning in the library 
>> code,
>> could we instead fix the warnings?
>
> That's a good idea, but in the specific case of "redefine ...", I
> think a different approach may be needed.
>
I think you're right, but I don't think it changes the underlying 
philosophy of my answer. If something is scary enough to generate a 
warning in user code, then it should always generate it.

However, there are also times where the developer knows more than the 
interpreter. For those cases, how about a standard facility to allow 
warnings to be disabled for a chunk of code (a la Perl)?