30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
7:57 p.m.
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Are standards documents the place for prescribing which warnings should be raised, and under what circumstances?
If someone is using GHC, and has specified -O2 then clearly something that causes vastly more time is a problem. If someone is learning Haskell and is using Hugs then they probably couldn't care less. Perhaps some warnings should be left up to the implementation to decide...
That's why my preferred phrasing is "warnings available to the user" - that is, they don't have to be on by default but there should be an option to turn them on. -- flippa@flippac.org 'In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself... Truly this is a land of opportunity.' - Detritus, Men at Arms