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Last night at Omaha.NET I got an interesting question during my talk. It was based around code that looked like this:
public int DoSomething(int x, int y)
{
return x * x;
}
Basically I made the claim that VS will give you an error, saying that y isn’t being used. Someone in the audience said that was incorrect - the compiler wouldn’t bark at you. I couldn’t sworn I saw the IDE yell at me when I’ve done this before … but I needed to do it in VS to be sure. So I got home and tried it out.
Turns out we were both right :)
He was correct in that the C# compiler won’t complain about it. But if you have CodeAnalysis turned on (with warnings as errors enabled), you’ll see CA1808 pop up:
CA1801 : Microsoft.Usage : Parameter 'y' of 'Beer.DoSomething(int, int)' is never used. Remove the parameter or use it in the method body.
Since I have CodeAnalysis cranked up in my projects, that’s why I see it.
Published: 08.29.2008 03:49:23 PM CST