Re: [Gm2] CASE: gm2-4.1.2 of 2011-11-08 bug (or possibly philosophical difference)

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, 21:44:48 +0100, john o goyo wrote:
> On 13-Nov-11, at 6:45 a, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> >[...]
> >Hi Gary,
> >
> >yes I think this is why I didn't skip the test in gm2 1.0.  But I
> >concede that in huge legacy code bases it could be painful to add ELSE
> >to each variant record.  As you say it is also easy to disable the
> >check
> >anyway.
> 
> Legacy code is exactly my problem.  There are a lot of such cases --
> not just with variant records but also incomplete case selections in
> code.

FWIW, but to be honest, I really hate to implement some workarounds in a
tool whose purpose should just be to compile a properly defined language
into machine code... I normally try to _educate_ every person who
contacts me wrt/ "could the compiler not do this to save me from doing
that?", that (s)he should fix the anomalies in their own code, because
the next time, they'll complain about other non-portabilities...

> john

Just my 2 ¢ ;-)

Cheers..

l8er
manfred