"KennyTM~" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Aug 21, 10 02:53, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Friday, August 20, 2010 11:35:48 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > [snip] >>> >>> 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'.
Yea, I bitched and bitched and bitched about that until Walter finally caved :)
