Docs: Section on local variables

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:03:04PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
[...]
> increasingly I agree with Walter's take on warnings (that they
> shouldn't exist at all - something is an error or it isn't; none of
> this halfway stuff). Warnings are problematic in that a good
> programmer will _never_ leave them in their code and yet so many
> programmers do. So, they become useless noise. The _only_ advantage to
> them is that they can be used for stupid stuff like unreachable code,
> allowing you to leave warnings while editing code but remove them when
> your done. I don't really even like that though, truth be told.
[...]

The other advantage is that they let you identify code written by
incompetent programmers.


T

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