On 12/04/2012 15:43, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: >> On 4/12/2012 10:26 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> >>>>> -W0: no warnings (equivalent to -w) >>>>> -W1: default >>>>> -W2: equivalent to the current -Wall >>>>> -W3: equivalent to the current -Wall -Wextra >>>> >>>> I like this suggestion a lot. >> >> Me too! >> >> I also like short switches, but gcc mostly favors long >> hard-to-type not-necessarily-easy-to-remember switch >> names. > > People easily associates some ordering to numbers (usually > the greater the better or in this case the worse) which > creates another set of confusion.
What's the problem? The greater the number, the more warnings you get. Simple. > Geodelization is great > for machines, hardly so as human interface. I don't think the incompleteness theorem is remotely relevant here. cheers, DaveK