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Re: RFC: -Wall by default
On 04/12/2012 02:03 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:
> On 4/12/2012 6:44 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>> I would also suggest that a competent programmer would know what they
>> don't know; when reading code they'd look it up, when writing code
>> they'd insert parentheses for clarity.
>
> Yes, of course I 100% agree with that. But then by your definition
> code that does not have the "parentheses for clarity" is written by
> incompetent programmers, and it seems reasonable to have a warning
> that warns them of this incompetence :-)
Sorry for the confusion: I intended to write
>> I would also suggest that your competent programmer would know what
>> they don't know; when reading code they'd look it up, when writing
>> code they'd insert parentheses for clarity.
Using two different definitions of "competent programmer" without
clarification makes me an incompetent writer, I suppose. :-)
Andrew.