A Bug By Any Other Name ...

[pdpi]

On Jul 6, 1:12 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <m... at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
> "Terry Reedy" <t...j at ..el.edu> wrote:
> > Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
> > > In this case, a note in the documentation warning about the potential
> > > confusion would be fine.
>
> > How would that help someone who does not read the doc?
>
> It obviously won't.
>
> All it will do, is that it will enable people on this group,
> who may read the manual, to tell people who complain,
> to RTFM.
>
>  I agree that it would be a good idea to make it an
> error, or a warning - "this might not do what you
> think it does", or an "are you sure?" exception.
>
>   :-)
>
> - Hendrik

I dunno. Specifically recognizing (and emitting code code for) a token
that's not actually part of the language because people coming from
other languages think it exists seems like the start of a fustercluck.