[fpc-devel] [Patch/RFC] Warnings for (in/over)complete case statements

LacaK lacak at zoznam.sk
Wed Jan 2 11:18:38 CET 2019


>> - If a case statement on an ordinal does not contain labels for all values of
>> the ordinal, and no else statement is given, raise a new warning (W6059). This
>> is actually defined as an error in ISO7185 and a dynamic-violation in IEC10206.
> So now I will have to add a useless else statement for every case
> statement that uses e.g. integers, or rewrite them to if..then..else
> or if value in [...]?
> And how will I mage this when my code runs on different architecture
> where the full range of the ordinal may differ?
>
> Please no (to this part of the proposal).

+1 here or at least decrease severity from warning to some level that is
not by default printed in Messages window ...

-Laco.





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