[m-dev.] for review: impure functions

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Apr-2000, David Glen JEFFERY <dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 05-Apr-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure that the language reference manual should talk about what warnings
> > > the compiler should be expected to produce. (Unless there is a precedent
> > > elsewhere in the manual that I wasn't aware of).
> > 
> > I'm open to suggestions on this one.  I mentioned it in the paper and
> > just pasted this in.  
> > 
> > There certainly is precendent -- consider the documention for pragma
> > obsolete.  This is a pragma whose purpose it to generate warnings.
> 
> True, but the whole pragmas section is presented as being implementation
> dependent, so the rules can be bent a bit there.
> 
> I'm not too fussed either way, though.

I think it is fine for the language reference manual to recommend certain
compiler warnings.

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