[GRASS-user] Re: Possible bug in r.sum and in r.stats?

[Hermann Peifer]

On 09/03/2012 00:16, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> I would expect it to be the other way around. Most raster modules
> respect the current region and mask, because it happens automatically.
> Modules which don't want to use the current region have to explicitly
> set the working region (typically based upon an input map); modules
> which don't want inputs to be masked have to explicitly disable
> masking.
>

Just a thought, not sure if it really makes sense:
Raster modules that ignore the current region and/or mask could issue 
some sort of warning, in analogy to "[Raster MASK present]" which comes 
up all the time if I have a MASK map somewhere in the visible mapsets.

Hermann