Detector for unused variables

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Mon Jul 30 11:44:49 PDT 2012


On Monday, July 30, 2012 20:39:02 Namespace wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
> Walter hates so much things, nearly all what the community wishes
> for: not null types, warnings for unused variables, warnings for
> unused imports and so on.
> It does not only count what he wants but what is useful, IMO.

Plenty of the community agrees with him too, much as there may be some vocal 
folks who don't. Regardless, because he's the gatekeeper of the reference 
compiler, he has to be convinced if you want a feature added to either the 
language or the compiler. He's generally quite reasonable, but he also 
has a high bar for feature changes.

- Jonathan M Davis


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