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[Peter Vreman]

> Hi Peter,
>
> on 2005-03-20T17:17:53+02:00 you wrote:
>>> > if I assign a variable / function from type Extended to a variable
>>> > from type Double appear the hint: 'Type size mismatch, possible loss
>>> > of data / range check error'. This is correct, but if I do this aware
>>> > it is annoying.
>
>> Hints should not be enabled by default.
>
> I disagree.
>
>> They are only provided to help finding errors.
>
> If I develop, I try to avoid errors always. Therefore hints and
> warnings are always enabled on my system.
>
> Your suggestion have a furthermore problem. If I enable the hints only
> to check for potential errors, I need to analyse all hints every time.
> This cause many more effort. I prefer to analyse the potential problem
> once and remove the problem or hide the hint, if there is not any
> problem.

You are welcome to provide a clean solution (and patch) to hide hints. For
us it has low priority.