On Aug 21, 10 02:53, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, August 20, 2010 11:35:48 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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An error would be an enormous pain in the ass. A warning might be helpful
in some cases.
Except that thanks to how warnings are deal with in dmd, there's not much
difference between an error and a warning; it's just a question of how picky you
want to be about errors. As it is, I'd argue that there is no such thing as a
real warning in D. You never see warnings unless you use -w, at which point
they're treated as errors. And if you're being at all careful, you're going to
be compiling with -w, so it doesn't make much difference. You can choose to
compile without -w until you think what you have works and then use -w to find
stuff you missed, but then you could easily be being shot in the foot by
something that's considered a warning. If you had seen it, you could have dealt
with it. What dmd needs is for warnings to be visible in normal compilation,
making -w only make warnings errors as opposed to being the way to make them
appear as well. As it is, warnings pretty much might as well be errors.
- Jonathan M Davis
You can treat warnings as warnings with '-wi' instead of '-w'.
