Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

[bearophile]

Daniel Murphy:

>> D language has similar rules, but I don't rember if the D 
>> compiler warns against usage of similar identifiers.
>
> It doesn't!

Perhaps it should?


>> [snip etc]
>
> The D compiler is not a lint tool!

Currently the D compiler catches several bugs that are caught 
only by C lints. Clang shows that you can add lot of lint-like 
tests to the compiler. I'd like some more tests in the D compiler.

Bye,
bearophile