Support both warnings and errors

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating mypy's command-line option handling and diagnostic reporting, then determine how warnings should be represented and filtered. Done means warnings and errors are distinct and warnings can be enabled or disabled from the command line, with the default behavior decided.

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Description

feature priority-2-low topic-error-reporting

We should have both errors (for things that clearly violate the type system) and warnings (for style issues and things that are suspicious but not necessarily problems). There should be a command line option for enabling/disabling warnings. Not sure whether warnings should be on by default -- probably yes.

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