[PURRS-devel] Re: One last time: annoying warning

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr at integrable-solutions.net
Sat Sep 28 14:54:45 CEST 2002


Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> writes:
| > 
| > [...]
| > 
| > | What is important is that the GCC people taking care of the standard
| > | library do the right thing.  Since they know that someone may very
| > | legitimately wish to compile with, e.g., -W -Wall, they write code
| > | like
| > | 
| > |        virtual iter_type
| > |        do_get_time(iter_type __s, iter_type /*__end*/, ios_base&,
| > |                    ios_base::iostate& /*__err*/, tm* /*__t*/) const
| > |        { return __s; }
| > 
| > I'm one of those GCC people taking care of the library and I can
| > assure you I don't particularly appreciate that style (like some other
| > things in the V3 STYLE).  So, I would say that you should be very
| > careful in drawing conclusions from things you might read in the V3
| > source code -- not every one has the same idea of the styles to be used.
| 
| It is not a matter of style: it is a matter of respect for the users.

I guess it depends on what you define to be irrespectful for users.
Given the tone you're taking and the lack of recognizing actual facst, I
guess there is no much interest in continuing this thread.

[...]

| Huh?  Looks like a copy-and-paste error...

No. Just go and check out.

-- Gaby



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