Should we produce warnings for unused/uninitialized internal fields?

posted by  hjwin (10)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

You may have noticed as you've been developing C# applications that if you have an internal field of an internal type which you never use, we give you a warning about it. In fact, there are a number of warnings that we give for such fields, depending upon whether the field was never read or written, initialized but not read, or read but not initialized (and therefore always set to its default value.)

Now, obviously we ought not to give similar warnings for public fields on public types. The thing doing the reading or writing is highly likely to be an external assembl