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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:02:34 +0100
Subject: Re: Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:
> Yes, but is it a *significant* cost? =A0My assumption is that the suppres=
sion
> would be of checking, not just of displaying messages.
>

It mightn't be very significant, but there'd still be some cost.
However, IMHO the greatest cost is the spamminess; forcing the user to
deal with lines and lines of warnings is not a useful way to design a
language.

ChrisA