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

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Tue Feb 25 14:47:35 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 22:42:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/25/2014 8:05 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Actually a good approach the Go guys have, everything that can 
>> be a warning, is
>> an error.
>
> D started with and maintained that approach for many years. It 
> was a position I strongly advocated.

To be completely honest, at the moment warning lobby has happened 
it was more reasonable because there was not even slight 
possibility of lint-like tool creation back then. But now we have 
DScanner and DDMD is not that far away too which allows for more 
purism in this question.


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