debug = x overrides command line

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:04:41 +0000
Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 13:58:44 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
> > I am surprised. So you can actually enable all debug code 
> > permanently.
> >
> > I think debug=... statement should be made illegal.
> >
> > -Steve
> 
> I'd agree with that to be honest. It seems odd to allow this in 
> code. I can understand the rationale for doing unpure things in a 
> pure function in debug mode but that mode should be specified on 
> the command line, not in code. Like you say, you can enable debug 
> mode permanently in code.
i think that compiler should emit warning on such code. it can be handy
to do such things, but let compiler warn us that "debug=" is not very
safe thing to do.
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