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On Sunday, February 16, 2014 11:25:35 AM UTC-3, Robert A Duff wrote:
> You are wrong to always believe in the compiler.  In GNAT, and most 
> other compilers for Ada or any other language, a warning indicates
> that something MIGHT be wrong, not that something definitely IS wrong.
> You are smarter than the compiler (although perhaps not as detail
> oriented).  When you see a warning, you should inspect the code, and if
> you think the code is correct, use pragma Warnings (Off, ...) to
> suppress it, along with a comment explaining why.  Don't write
> less-elegant code just to make the compiler shut up.

Ok. Good advice.