| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] JFace Generics |
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On 08/29/2013 04:19 PM, Eike Stepper
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I'd better disable a compiler check (or findbugs rule, for that matter) than risk that any new potential problem gets overlooked in a sea of warnings that nobody ever wants to address. Once you've got more than 5 warnings in the problems view, you'll never ever look at that view again.That makes a difference. I fundamentally believe in the concept of technical debt (like some people do believe in God). So I think all the contrary: most warnings are useful and meaningful and resolving them improve code quality. They should never get ignored or hidden, even if no-one wants to work on them, developers have to know where the quality of their code is not optimal. If you don't pay for your bugs/warnings now, you'll pay more later. But this doesn't imply that we should avoid creation of new warnings when they produce value. IMO Generics on viewers do provide value, and are worth showing warning on legacy code. Let's look at the future, not at the legacy ;) |