> If it were in fact the characteristic of a NOTICE that you need not pay
> attention to them, why do we have them?
I have often wondered that myself.
> > My thought is that you could turn off NOTICES and not worry.
>
> Well, there are plenty of NOTICE instances that carry a definite need to
> worry, such as identifier truncation, implicitly added FROM items,
> implicit changes to types specified as "opaque", unsupported and ignored
> syntax clauses.
I think that WARNING should be used for ALL things that have been
deprecated. eg. implicit FROM, the opaque business, and definitely
unsupported and ignored synacies.
> I have a slight feeling that these two categories cannot usefully be
> distinguished, but I'm interested to hear other opinions.
Chris