On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote:
Emil Dotchevski wrote:
I propose to replace all of the existing warnings guidelines in the Wiki with the following: "No warnings should be emitted by Boost code. Use your best judgment to either fix or suppress the warning."
I like the simplicity of this statement of purpose, but there's value in educating developers on how to judge whether to fix or suppress a warning and in the information on how to deal with specific warnings and compiler vagaries.
If I understand correctly, you are concerned with the possibility of developers suppressing warnings as opposed to "fixing them properly." My wording, which is indeed intended to be complete, specifically seeks to avoid such differentiation. Rather than arguing what is right and what is wrong, we should consider the simple fact that if a Boost developer suppresses a warning in a particular library, there are no reasonable grounds to require the warning to be enabled and the code "fixed". Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode