re: compiler warnings -- I saw this on reddit a little while back, but I don't think I've seen it in this thread? Worth posting in case anyone missed it: http://blog.ezyang.com/2017/03 On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Henning Thielemann < lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Bryan Richter wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:18:10PM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
I think the only reason is that some programmers got "laziness" wrong and try to use primitive types for everything instead of using (and importing) dedicated types.
Well, is there anything to be done for it at this point? Is there even any consensus that this was, in retrospect, a poor choice?
The community was and is pretty divided, I think. My suggested compromise is to get compiler warnings if you use certain instances (by accident).
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