I'm not comfortable with this behavior:

//----------------------
import foo;
void main() {}
//----------------------

Compiled with warnings enabled, DMD checks warnings for "foo" too. While it could be a good thing when "foo" is my own code, I don't like it when it's part of another project (I think C and C++ do the same thing, but it's not actually relevant). This is particularly bad right now that DMD is treating warnings as errors and stopping really fast when finding warnings. So, there I was wanting to check a small program of mine for possible warnings, and DMD didn't say a word about it but just complained about MinTL (which my program uses).

In conclussion, with the current status quo, I can't check my program. My proposal: don't enable warnings for imported modules. Any thoughts?

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Carlos Santander Bernal

In article <d0lm6u$tmk$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Carlos Santander B. says...
>
>I'm not comfortable with this behavior:
>
>//----------------------
>import foo;
>void main() {}
>//----------------------
>
>Compiled with warnings enabled, DMD checks warnings for "foo" too. While it could be a good thing when "foo" is my own code, I don't like it when it's part of another project (I think C and C++ do the same thing, but it's not actually relevant). This is particularly bad right now that DMD is treating warnings as errors and stopping really fast when finding warnings. So, there I was wanting to check a small program of mine for possible warnings, and DMD didn't say a word about it but just complained about MinTL (which my program uses).

I tried running -w with MinTL, too, and got through about 1/2 of a file before it kept halting the compile on if-return early exits saying everything else is unreachable. I gave up after commenting out two of those just as a last gasp at trying -w. Hopefully once that gets fixed -w will be meaningful on MinTL.

>In conclussion, with the current status quo, I can't check my program. My proposal: don't enable warnings for imported modules. Any thoughts?

That probably makes sense for non-templates but I have a feeling that checking templates will be worth it since there could be code paths that only get tickled after being instantiated. I don't know for sure, though.

>_______________________
>Carlos Santander Bernal