> The only downside I can think of is someone accidentally commits a single-line, commented out variable declaration.
Yeah, that's the sort of thing I was thinking of. Or empty method implementations, or dummy return values, or whatever.
I guess my point is just that if it's more convenient to do something else before fixing an issue, then it's better to have a warning reminding you to fix it than to not. And if you're not going to circumvent the error, you're probably not going to ignore the warnings either.
Reading your other comment, you mentioned working with make. The advantage I mentioned only really applies in IDEs.
Yeah, that's the sort of thing I was thinking of. Or empty method implementations, or dummy return values, or whatever.
I guess my point is just that if it's more convenient to do something else before fixing an issue, then it's better to have a warning reminding you to fix it than to not. And if you're not going to circumvent the error, you're probably not going to ignore the warnings either.
Reading your other comment, you mentioned working with make. The advantage I mentioned only really applies in IDEs.