On 12/04/2012 15:55, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/04/2012 15:43, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>>> People easily associates some ordering to numbers (usually >>> the greater the better or in this case the worse) which >>> creates another set of confusion. >> What's the problem? The greater the number, the more warnings you get. >> Simple. > > Not necessarily. Your argument makes no sense. You said that there was a problem because people will expect numbered -W options to be ordinal. But they *are* ordinal. So people's expectations will be correct. You haven't said anything about where the problem is yet, you've just asserted that there will be one without demonstration or evidence, so again I ask: What's the problem? It works just fine for -O, users understand and are happy with that, why shouldn't it work just as well for -W? cheers, DaveK