Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> Russell McMahon wrote:

That was actually me, FWIW :)

>> Most of these errors are due to insufficient programming
>> environments. How many people still program without syntax
>> highlighting? Without autocompletion? Without an editor that scans
>> your sources while you're writing and knows all the symbols and
>> their scope? Without something like lint that would catch 99% of
>> these silly mistakes (independently of the fact that most of them
>> were already avoided by using a more appropriate editor)?
> 
> Yes, yes, yes, yes. And I do want to keep it that way! 

Right. This was in response to someone complaining about all the silly
mistakes you can make with C -- and most of which, for most people
anyway, and IME and FWIW only, can be avoided with a smarter editor. He
complained about case typos in identifiers, which can be nicely avoided
with autocompletion, for example. YMMV, as always :)

> default to off, please?

This all defaults to "off", because you have to go there and get an
editor that does all this (like the dead CodeWright, or one of its alive
cousins). Nothing stops you from coding with Notepad...

Gerhard
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