Shadowing of members

[mist]

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 16:58:13 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 12:53:05 UTC, mist wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 12:05:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>>> Clang contains a ton of warnings for code that could contain 
>>> common errors. […]
>>
>> Well, that is probably the only thing I hate in Clang :)
>
> Actually, I found GCC to be much noisier in this (-Wall 
> -Wextra) case; the Clang warnings are mostly of pretty good 
> quality.
>
>
>> Also, I can't imagine a single valid use case for unreferenced 
>> variables in C/C++, so it is a bit different.
>
> Variables only used as parameters to assert(), in release 
> builds. This is somewhat annoying, as there isn't already an 
> #if-block you could move them into, as for other similar cases 
> involving conditional compilation.
>
> David

Ah, good catch, glad I have not yet met such a case, I'd probably 
have raged a lot :) Well, both Clang and GCC are not perfect 
here. I have seen several times when -Werror policy got canceled 
because no acceptable workaround was thought of in time. And my 
development experience is rather small.