[bug #61450] Add warning for extraneous arguments to requests

[Ralph Corderoy]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61450>

                 Summary: Add warning for extraneous arguments to requests
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: ralph
            Submitted on: Tue 09 Nov 2021 11:39:37 AM UTC
                Category: Core
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

No warning is issued when a request has extraneous arguments, e.g. ‘.ce 3 1
4 1 5’.  A warning should be added and included in the ‘all’ grouping of
warnings.  Experience from deploying that warning will allow a future choice
on whether extraneous arguments should be upgraded to an error, e.g. there's
no widespread historical habit of extra arguments being provided knowing that
they'll be ignored.

Conversation causing this bug report occurred on the groff mailing list in
2021-11 under the subject ‘Two trivial questions’.





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