On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> On 09/27/2016 01:51 PM, Marek Polacek wrote:
> > But the C/C++ keywords are all English, too; lint tools only accept English,
> > and so it wouldn't seem unreasonable to only accept English keywords in the
> > comments. And in any case, I don't see how a compiler can be expected to
> > be able to parse non-English languages.
>
> It isn't. But it can also be reasonably by expected not to warn about things
> that are valid according to the language specification and are frequently
> used.
Ok, but note that the warning is in -Wextra, not enabled by default/-Wall.
I'm all for reducing false positives whenever possible and we can improve
out comment-parsing heuristics, but I just can't see us handling anything
other than English.
Marek
