Re: [boost] warning suppression

From: Andreas Huber (ahd6974-spamboostorgtrap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-13 05:13:15

Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> Andreas Huber wrote:
> > Since I believe that *all* users who care about warnings will disable 
> > these in their code anyway, I think the most user-friendly approach is to 
> > permanently disable them in the library header.
> 
> BTW, the fact that all users who care about warnings will disable these 
> in their code anyway, is an argument *against* disabling them 
> permanently in the library header, not for it...

My wording is unclear, let me rephrase:

Since I believe that *all* users who care about warnings will *want* to disable 
these in their code anyway, I think the most user-friendly approach is to 
permanently disable them in the library header.

(Note the added "want")

> Why insist on being 
> "rude" as Michael claimed (and I happen to agree with him) by forcing 
> such decision on the user, if all users who care will make that decision 
> anyway? If the answer here is "because I save the user from disabling 
> these warning himself" then it's not true. The user will have to disable 
> them himself because they appear all over the place, not only from the 
> Boost.Statechart code.

I'm not sure whether that applies to the majority of the users. Anyway, as you 
have pointed out: The permanent warning suppression might well be avoidable, 
which would render this discussion obsolete.

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Andreas Huber
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