warnings are a good thing. I'd never just turn them off to begin with. But saying that an experienced programmer is likely missing something because there is a warning is rather suspect. The argument works great for the general case, because at the level of a whole program there is a lot more room to miss something. But, if there is a reason not to turn off specific warnings for a short time, it isn't that there is still a "problem." For example, if you'll dealing with hashes, you'll get uninitialized errors in some types of things, but whether it's initialized might be besides the point. If it exists might really be what matters.

Adding extra code that isn't needed to get rid of the warning is at least as bad as turning off the warning where you know it isn't a problem, so judgement is required.

I think a good rule is, "if you fully understand why you're getting the warning, then it's your call if it should be on or off." If you don't know what the warning is, but just want it to shut up, then yeah, read the manual, fix the code, etc.
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