Re: warning handling in Perl scripts

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: warning handling in Perl scripts
Date: 2012-06-27 15:21:16
Message-ID: 433D52CB-BF5D-49ED-B50E-47B426BDB936@justatheory.com
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On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> I realise I'm late to this party, but I'm with Robert. The root cause of the errors should be fixed.
>
> That's not to say that making warnings fatal might not also be a good idea as a general defense mechanism.

ISTM that if they are fatal, one will be more motivated to fix them. I think that was the point.

David

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