debug = x overrides command line

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/22/14 7:23 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:33:02 -0400
> schrieb Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>:
>
>> On 10/21/14 3:24 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 10/21/2014 12:15 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 17:25:37 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Yep, you can just turn off purity when it gets in the way.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>> Please raise a ticket for this.
>>>
>>> That was done deliberately - it's a feature. It enables things like
>>> debugging printf's to be inserted into pure functions.
>>
>> Right. But my understanding was that was only when you were actually
>> compiling with debug enabled. I didn't expect it to be a feature to be
>> able to do this without debug enabled, as it currently is.
>
> You might be surprised that -debug doesn't enable anything
> special. It is just a shortcut for setting the debug level to
> 1 (a shortcut for -debug=1). Likewise debug statements are a
> shortcut for debug(1) {…}. This is also analogous to -version.
>

I am surprised. So you can actually enable all debug code permanently.

I think debug=... statement should be made illegal.

-Steve