On 2019年1月25日 at 10:15, Eric V. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be a change if the code is never called. I'm not sure we care > about code that's never called, but it is a change.
The biggest problem with converting runtime errors to compile time errors is that it means affected dead code goes from being a readability & maintainability problem to "Python X.Y breaks my project". SyntaxWarning splits the difference nicely, since the compiler complains about the same dead code that would confuse a human reader, but also ignores it and moves on. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com