Re: [boost] Re: Regex Shadow Warnings

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-17 17:01:34

At 10:57 AM 11/16/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

 >I am reluctant to cater to every possible warning.  This is an example
 >of one which often flags perfectly good code.

When it is required that code compile without triggering warning X, in 
effect the C++ language has been changed to no longer allow whatever is 
triggering X.

That's OK, if X is virtually always a programming problem. But if it is 
sometimes perfectly good code, then I wouldn't want to see that warning 
enabled.

 >  Should we try to come
 >to a concensus about this?  Should we go the other direction, and
 >simply enable all warnings in our Boost.Build toolsets?

No. Only enable warnings for conditions which are actually errors the 
overwhelming majority of the time.

--Beman