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Re: request for change

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.??m> Jan 08, 2008
• 662 views

Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > with/without warning should be reversed.
> > 
> > The major use of 'with warning' is to look for unused variables/constants
> > when writing a program.
> > 
> > It seems that everyone that posts a program in the archives places
> > 'without warning' at the top of their final program.
> > 
> > That does not make sense to me; Why isn't 'without warning' the default ?
> 
> Because the warnings are there for a reason.  Some are more useful than
> others.  It's reasonable for released code to have "without warning" 
> at the top.  It's presumably been tested by the author.  One would hope
> that he'd fixed any dangerous warnings before releasing his code.
> 
> The defaults are correct.
> 

Matt:

   'without warning' is used by lazy programmers that don't
   want to be bothered with cleaning up their programs by
   removing unused variables.
   
Bernie

My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan