Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

["Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

On 2/13/07, Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote:
> May I suggest another definition for a warning being entirely sucks?
> "The warning is entirely sucks if and only if it never has true
> positives." In all other cases it's only more or less sucks, IMHO.

You're totally missing the point. False positives are not a minor
annoyance, they're actively harmful as they hide other _useful_
warnings. So, you really want warnings to be about things that can and
should be fixed. So you really should aim for _zero false positives_
even if you risk not detecting some real positives.
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