[Swan] warningsarefatal

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Sun Nov 10 16:18:27 EET 2013


On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> I don't see why it matters much.  Surely "fatal" would be fine and
> safer that "warn".
>
> By default, they are warnings.
>
> They are controlled by readwriteconf's -W flag (undocumented) and
> addconn's -W flags (documented).
>
> The reason I ask is that the mechanism is implemented in an awkward
> way but before I fix that, I'm wondering if deletion is best.
>
> Does anyone use the -W flag?
>
> Does anyone care if the default switches from warning to fatal?

I'm fine with removing it and turning the "warnings" to "fatal".

Paul


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