On 01/30/2021 11:42 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Modern Visual
Studio and GCC both flag the "=" in a condition, I believe. But if you're
shipping code with 260+ warnings, who would see one more.
And the problem here is
really quite plain and simple.
Why are you shipping code with any warnings?
The short answer, as I replied earlier, is that they deemed the code too fragile
to touch. When I told them I removed the warnings they said to put them back or I would
likely be fired.
There's a
pretty good chance the heat pump you're using right now has those warnings. Alas...
Just because some other programmer is an idiot doesn't mean I have
to be.
They only wanted idiots. So I immediately started looking for another job. I might be an
idiot, but I don't want to be associated with the rest of them :-)
Will
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -- Albert
Einstein