Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
Adam D. Ruppe
destructionator at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 06:53:59 PST 2014
I'd like to point out a cool fact: with D, we can do a number of
lint like things in the language itself, especially if we extend
rtinfo (I wrote about this a little while ago and might do a pull
request soon)
checkBlacklistedIdentifiers -- would require modifying the header
but we could @disable them
checkOSSIncludes - scan for imports, would be easier with rtinfo
for modules though! but worst case i'm pretty sure we could do
this as a runtime unit test with moduleinfo
Eliminate common mistakes, checkImplicitCast - a UDA + RTInfo +
compile time reflection means this is checked by D
well a lot of these are obviated by D itself too... but checking
reflection, especially with a project-wide rtinfo extension so
you don't have to static assert in every module, gives D the
potential to lint itself with some user-defined semantics.
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