> I've been going over my code trying to get it all to compile with > "ghc -Wall -Werror"
I recently ran across what may be a good reason not to use -Wall in combination with -Werror (and similar combinations in other compilers), at least not as the standard build switches for software you intend to distribute. It causes bitrot, because -Wall will in the future turn on warnings that don't even exist yet today, and -Werror will turn those warnings into errors. The upshot is that you can write code that entirely follows the standard that defines whatever language you're using (e.g. Haskell 98), and still have it break in the future, even if future compilers adhere to the standard. If you are serious about writing portable and durable code, you may want to avoid this. (I ran into this problem while trying to resurrect an excellent but unmaintained compiler written in lots of OCaml and a little C. Both ocaml and gcc have grown many new warnings in the last few years.) -- /jaap _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
