On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 05:40:41PM +0100, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote: > > > What is the gain by making this a mandatory warning? If noone is using > > it, adding a warning doesn't do much. If people are, what good does it > > them? > > > > It helps people who are not intentionally using this (mis-)feature, but > happen by accident to write code typically one-liners) that uses it (and do > not explicitly enable strictures nor warnings – typically in one-liners, I > guess). > > Like, forgetting to import a constant, or misspelling its name … Forcing warnings upon users who have choosen not to enable warnings doesn't sound to me as even remotely user friendly. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next