Should unreachable code be considered an error?
Don
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Thu Aug 18 11:46:52 PDT 2011
Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 02:38 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
>> Faramir on the Ars forums makes an excellent point:
>>
>> "With the c preprocessor, both theoretically and as it is used in
>> practice, you can easily get dead code in certain compile paths that is
>> live in others."
>>
>> I think template mixins can achieve the same sort of shenanigans. I think
>> warning it is.
>
> You mean string mixins?
> As string mixins are so much more expressive than C macros, one should
> actually almost never get trivial dead code in well designed string mixins.
Yes, the equivalent to the C preprocessor is version statements.
Obviously anything wrapped in a version(none) block shouldn't generate
an "unreachable code" error...
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