On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:35:43AM -0800, Nathan Wiger wrote:
Not too sure about the whole -w on by default thing. Really makes me
nervous. All I keep thinking about is the crap that Java spits out every
two lines. Makes stuff really look unpolished, and the warnings change
based on the JVM
At 03:56 AM 3/1/01 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
A friend of mine was talking about how old WWII era analog fire
computers, mechanical devices which calculated how much powder and at
what angle a ship's main guns must be fired at. They had a special
switch, "Battle Mode". In this mode, the
Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Command-line flags on by default [-T -Mstrict -Mwarnings]:
We already beat this to death with the .perlrc discussion. You'll
break reams of Perl code you probably don't even know you have this
way.
It
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Command-line flags on by default [-T -Mstrict -Mwarnings]:
We already beat this to death with the .perlrc discussion. You'll
break reams of Perl code you probably don't even know you have this
way.
It destroys the portability of Perl programs.
Yup, I
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:16:34PM -0800, Nathan Wiger wrote:
Ummm, I'm not too sure about this. There are, actually, backwards
compatibility concerns. Unless I'm mistaken, warnings go to stderr,
correct? Meaning that a program which may have lots of "unitialized
variables" and "variable only
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But we can run an experiment. Warnings can be made default for the
first few releases of Perl 6 and we'll see what happens. If it looks
good, leave them on. If not, shut them off. Unlike most other
features, this one doesn't have any serious backwards
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Nathan Wiger wrote:
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But we can run an experiment. Warnings can be made default for the
first few releases of Perl 6 and we'll see what happens. If it looks
Ummm, I'm not too sure about this. There are, actually, backwards
Something I think Ed mentioned in passing a few days ago has been
running around in my mind and after some contemplation I think its
changed my mind on all this.
My position has been that warnings are ultimately good, but people who
have not internalized this will easily become annoyed with them
