<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2012 00:50, Manu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turkeyman@gmail.com">turkeyman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 21 April 2012 00:05, Jonathan M Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmdavisProg@gmx.com" target="_blank">jmdavisProg@gmx.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Whether that'll change or not, I don't know, since it's not clear that Walter<br>
considers it to be a problem from what I recall about his comments on<br>
discussions on it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Hmm, I tend to think it would be valuable to have a warning or error in the case of redundant attribution, that way I know I'm not polluting my code with spurious junk, but I can see there might be some implication for meta-programming.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or perhaps more significantly, I would know when I'm erroneously applying attributes that don't have any effect, or don't make sense, I may have actually meant something else, but it silently works, and I'm not given any reason to think I made a mistake.</div>
<div>It may alleviate misunderstandings like this somewhat, and naturally give a clearer understanding of what does what exactly.</div></div>