From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Allegro compilation warnings Date: 2000/10/12 Message-ID: <3180342535878529@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680546340 References: mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 971353757 2275 195.0.192.66 (12 Oct 2000 12:29:17 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Oct 2000 12:29:17 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Mario Frasca | the most irritating ones are of this format | | Warning: Free reference to undeclared variable *PRECISION* assumed special. | This symbol may have been intended: IDEAL::*PRECISION*. | | most of them don't include the second line. | | any suggestion on what to do to give the compiler as much information | as it needs so that it won't complain any more? Well, why don't you declare/define your global variables? | less disturbing are the ones: | Warning: Variable X-DUMMY is never used. So why is it there? Instead of being "irritated" and "disturbed" and making references to another language, why not try to program in the language at hand? The warnings you get indicate that you are still thinking in another language and your irritation communicates that you don't intend to stop doing that because you think it is somehow correct to think in C++ and write in Common Lisp. What I want to know is how you began to think in C++ in the first place. Or is it that that experience has taught you that being irritated at computers and languages is the best approach because nothing else really works any better? (You're not the first C++ or Microsoft victim to believe this, and it sometimes takes a long time for people with that background to get the same kind of warm and calming sensation that the world of computers can be understood and mastered without mystery and pain that comes to people who understand the laws of physics and don't swear at the physical world when it doesn't obey their wishes. What's so fucking irritating is that those who lack that calmness make so many incredibly retarded decisions and statements that only do one thing: perpetuate the mystery and pain for all others. The best approach is to get a suitable hand-gun and use your Microsoft and C++ books for target practice. That gives you control, again. Then start anew with a real language and tools intended for people to use, not whatever semi-evolved simian the commercials work on.) #:Erik -- I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to death your right to say it. -- Tom Stoppard