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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] annotating unused function parameters
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:37:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpmgnyn9e.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ywhx6LLe6YcS/2xf@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:10:32 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> No, but the farther away you go from the edit-compile-run cycle, the
> more painful warnings become. Catching them immediately and fully has
> real value, as it means the cost of correcting them is lower. So all
> things being equal, I think we should prefer universal solutions when
> they're available (and for example compiler errors over say, coccinelle
> or other analysis tools).

Thanks for saying it so succinctly.  Making compiler errors less
useful only to please Coccinelle is putting our priority wrong.

> Ugh. Yeah, that is really unfortunate. I much prefer the parenthesized
> syntax, but if we can't find a way to unconfuse third-party parsing,
> then switching is probably the least-bad solution.

Or have third-party fix the parsing ;-)  Until then, perhaps we have
to live with a suboptimal syntax.

Thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-26 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-19 10:07 [PATCH 0/11] annotating unused function parameters Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 01/11] git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 02/11] refs: mark unused each_ref_fn parameters Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 03/11] refs: mark unused reflog callback parameters Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 04/11] refs: mark unused virtual method parameters Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 05/11] transport: mark bundle transport_options as unused Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 06/11] streaming: mark unused virtual method parameters Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 07/11] config: mark unused callback parameters Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 08/11] hashmap: " Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 09/11] mark unused read_tree_recursive() " Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] run-command: mark unused async " Jeff King
2022-08-19 10:08 ` [PATCH 11/11] is_path_owned_by_current_uid(): mark "report" parameter as unused Jeff King
2022-08-19 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/11] annotating unused function parameters Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-19 18:59   ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-19 20:58     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-20  9:46       ` Jeff King
2022-08-20 21:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-22 14:14         ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-25 11:00         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-26  7:10           ` Jeff King
2022-08-26 13:08             ` Phillip Wood
2022-08-26 16:37             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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