Google's Go & Exceptions

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hk1v87$1pem$1 at digitalmars.com...
> John D wrote:
>> That said, a compiler that doesn't warn that variables or arguments have 
>> gone unused in a function is not a good compiler. That said, a language 
>> that doesn't enforce return val checking is not a good programming 
>> language.
>
> I often have unused variables and such when developing and debugging code, 
> and when using conditional compilation, and having the compiler nag me 
> about them would be very irritating.

Only if they're fatal conditions. As non-fatal warnings that irritation 
dissapears.