Unused variables, better as error or warning?

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On 20/08/2010 22:28, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, August 20, 2010 14:12:09 Walter Bright wrote:
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> Warnings are good for things which you _should_ fix but don't have to immediately

No they aren't. Warnings are good for exactly nothing.

Warnings suck massive arse, hide geniune problems and create useless noise

In the real world where I have to work, warnings are things that other 
useless morons produce and ignore ad infinitium and I have to fix.

It's gotten to the point why I've literaly threatened to hit people with 
a keyboard because they keep checking code into CVS that has warnings in 
it, even though our company coding standards state (in large bold type) 
that this is completely unexceptable.

If it's wrong, it's *always* wrong or it's *not* wrong.

Pick one and learn the rules of the language.

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