To: Christophe Raffalli <cr@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Irrelevant variables in patterns
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 28 May 1994 12:08:22 -0000.
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Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 13:12:46 +0200
Message-Id: <29741.770123566@pauillac.inria.fr>
From: Chet Murthy <murthy@pauillac.inria.fr>
>>>>> On Sat, 28 May 1994 12:08:22 -0000, Christophe Raffalli <cr@dcs.ed.ac.uk> said:
> Superfluous warning confuse the programmer, and cause him to
> disregard the warnings completely. Which can cause him real pain
> when it was a warning that he should have heeded.
CR> I strongly disagree with this statement. If you get a lot of
CR> warning, it means you have a particular style of programming
CR> (for instance catching all exceptions in most of the
CR> handler). Then what you really needs is a compiler option to
CR> discard a particular warning (or class or warning) so you only
CR> get the warnings which are relevant to you programming style.
How about an ML-Lint? Anybody out there writing one?
--chet--