diff --git a/examples/AnalysisTemplate.cc b/examples/AnalysisTemplate.cc
index 14ea447..0269c93 100644
--- a/examples/AnalysisTemplate.cc
+++ b/examples/AnalysisTemplate.cc
@@ -1,55 +1,52 @@
 //! simple HEJ analysis that doesn't do anything
 
 #include <memory>     // for std::unique_ptr
 #include <iostream>
 
 #include "HEJ/Analysis.hh"
 
 namespace YAML {
   class Node;
 }
 
 namespace LHEF {
   class HEPRUP;
 }
 
 namespace {
   class AnalysisTemplate: public HEJ::Analysis {
     public:
       AnalysisTemplate(
         YAML::Node const & /* config */, LHEF::HEPRUP const & /* heprup */
       ) {}
 
       void fill(
         HEJ::Event const & /* event */,
         HEJ::Event const & /* FO_event */
       ) override {
       }
 
       bool pass_cuts(
         HEJ::Event const & /* event */,
         HEJ::Event const & /* FO_event */
       ) override {
         return true;
       }
 
-      void scale(double xsscale) override {
-        // used to scale the cross sections and histograms before .finalise in case the
-        // normalisation is unknown until the end of the run
-        (void)xsscale;
-        std::cout <<"AnalysisTemplate Warning:: Function scale does nothing\n";
+      void scale(double /* xsscale */) override {
+        std::cerr <<"AnalysisTemplate Warning:: Function scale does nothing\n";
       }
 
       void finalise() override {
         std::cout << "bye" << std::endl; // be polite
       }
     };
 }
 
 extern "C"
 __attribute__((visibility("default")))
 std::unique_ptr<HEJ::Analysis> make_analysis(
     YAML::Node const & config, LHEF::HEPRUP const & heprup
 ){
   return std::make_unique<AnalysisTemplate>(config, heprup);
 }