"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': > > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > > > It's wrong-headed to deride or discourage users for using the features > > > of their compiler when those functions are not erroneous. Instead, > > > you should be leaning on the developers to fix the erroneous code. > > > > This looks like a false dichotomy to me. > > But, it's not. A piece of code it either conforms to a C/C++ standard the > compiler implements or not. This may be hard to determine but, it is a > statement that is either true or false, absolutely.
Not that dichotomy, but the one that says it is wrongheaded to discourage users (who may have no interest in encountering or fixing bugs) from doing things that expose bugs, because developers should be bothered to fix their code. You can do both. Indeed, there aren’t many fields of ‘production’ in which end users ought to be encouraged to try things that expose flaws in design or manufacture. -- Barry.SCHWARTZ at chemoelectric.org http://chemoelectric.org Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com (PDF) 'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html)
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