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Re: [ID 20000403.009] uninitialised concatenation???

From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
April 4, 2000 07:34
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000403.009] uninitialised concatenation???
Message ID:
30136.954858860@chthon
>> Those are all different cases.  They should not be conflated just
>> to stick a pacifier in the mouths of the confused, because that
>It seems a shame to have to use another language, just because a couple of
>warnings confuse once in a while.

Use the 1-Apr patch.  No more confusion.  Back to 5.005 days.

>> would penalize the rest of us. People are can't understand warnings
>Why is a clear message a penalty?

I keep asking the same question.

>> should hire a programmer who can.
>It's apparently misleading enough to generate about seventy (occasionally
>off-topic) messages recently (most of which I have finally read).

>> The real issue is ignorance.  Solve it by education.
>Finally, unfortunately, I have to agree with you on that one.

Yup.  Patches suggested.

--tom



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