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Re: Warnings in the C++ Front-End and GCC in General
- To: tmwg at inxservices dot com
- Subject: Re: Warnings in the C++ Front-End and GCC in General
- From: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 20:30:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Cc: burley at gnu dot org
> Everything can be abused. I hope you will not be swayed by the
>argument that if you provide the feature the user base will abuse it.
It is an abuse of our collective role as purveyors of dialects of
languages like C, C++, Fortran, and so on to extend those dialects
to incorporate information on compiler internals without an
*incredibly* persuasive reason to do so.
If we commit such abuses, the user base will get its revenge.
tq vm, (burley)