And it would be better to update the GCS so that they give
reasonable advice also for today's situations,
Yes, I agree. Can you propose a patch to bug-standards?
Overall, the point of rms's comments here is/was to state what we all
agree with: we want useful warnings, and don't want useless ones, and we
want code that's as readable as possible, not cluttered with useless
casts or wrappers. Of course, none of these things are black&white.
The particular text here is one of his instances of more casual writing
in the GCS, not to be taken literally or dogmatically.
Thanks,
k
