Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?

[Seebs]

On 2011-08-16, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/16/2011 2:56 PM, Seebs wrote:
>> I wonder whether there's a way to mitigate the cost of these things by
>> messing with -W settings, such that runtime that wants to be fast can
>> omit the checks, but the default could still be to, well, prevent likely
>> errors.

> Warning messages have a cost even if suppressed.

Yes, but is it a *significant* cost?  My assumption is that the suppression
would be of checking, not just of displaying messages.

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