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On Jun 3, 2016, at 06:16, Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com> wrote: > > Abigail writes: > >> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Smylers wrote: >> >>> How about consistently warning on all the examples Karl gave above? >> >> (Ergo, I'm not too much of a fan of these warnings). > > Removing all of the existing warnings would also be consistent, and > arguably an improvement on the current situation. > > Having warnings in some of these situations but not others doesn't seem > to be useful for anybody. Deliberately being unhelpful all the time isn't an improvement over striving to be more consistently helpful. It's probably worth keeping the warnings for hard-coded regular expressions. While it's convenient for generators to sloppily slap together meaningless code, human coders, especially ones asking for warnings, intend to do it much less frequently. -- Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com>Thread Previous