> From: Neal Gompa <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 08:10:48 -0400 > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 8:05 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > From: Neal Gompa <[email protected]> > > > Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 06:56:32 -0400 > > > Cc: Eric Gallager <[email protected]>, Jonathan Wakely > > > <[email protected]>, [email protected], > > > David Edelsohn <[email protected]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, > > > Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]>, > > > Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]>, [email protected], > > > [email protected] > > > > > > Right, we've been going through a similar effort with C++ over the > > > past decade. GCC incrementally becoming more strict on C++ has been an > > > incredibly painful experience, and it eats away a ton of time that I > > > would have spent dealing with other problems. Having one big event > > > where the majority of changes to make the C compiler strict happen > > > will honestly make it less painful, even if it doesn't seem like it at > > > the moment. > > > > But not having such an event, ever, would be even less painful. > > That's not going to happen.
Well, I hope it will. Otherwise I wouldn't be partaking in this discussion.
