Re: Another ammunition

["AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>]

> Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:

> -ansi -Wall -pedantic -Wtraditional -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow
> -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wcast-qual
> -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline
> -Werror -W

> Forces you to fix the simple bugs to even get your code to compile
> (leaving you to be more creative in creating tricky logic bugs).

That's an interesting example. All those switches needed
to force you to "fix the simple bugs"? How many people
would you think would bother with all the switches?
And not make a mistake of omitting one?

Even more importantly, how do you know *you* haven't
missed one or two? Sure, there are manuals (or are there?
or are the manuals complete and up to date? etc etc) but
even then, setting up all those switches is surely subject
to human error. Isn't it better to just have all of that built
right into the language which compiler is required to enforce?