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Re: C++ PATCH: Disallow floating-point literals in integral-constant expressions

On Jan 31, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Marcin Dalecki wrote: 
But since you started this kind of "decision based on user polling"
argument, I just wanted to point you at the logical flaw behind it:
In C++ average programmers frequently use "features of the compiler"
without intention of doing so. You can't imagine how many people out
there just edit the code until the compiler let's it pass...

Yes, that is exactly my point. In my world, users like to be able to get warnings for a release, while they fix things. This let's them file codegen bugs sooner, as their projects compile sooner, it lets me do more testing, as I can compile their projects, instead of having those project fail to build...

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