From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Exiting from a function or procedure
Date: 2000/04/24
Date: 2000-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ITRM4.955$7N2.399746@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8e05d9$c8$1@nnrp1.deja.com
> > A classic tradeoff in this case between Type 1 and Type 2
> > error probabilities.
>
> Actually I see no trade off here, there is no advantage in a
> compiler NOT warning in cases which clearly warrant a warning.
If a situation "clearly" warrants a warning, then it warrants a
warning. But there are cases where the "clearly warrants" is
disputable. One reason for deciding not to have the compiler
issue a particular warning might be:
>The trouble with leaving warnings in your code is that you can
>easily get into the habit of ignoring warnings, and we see many
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-21 0:00 Exiting from a function or procedure Andres Tarallo
2000-04-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-21 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-21 0:00 ` Andres Tarallo
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Pablo Moisset
2000-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-04-22 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-04-22 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-23 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` tmoran [this message]
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-04-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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