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

[Walter Bright]

On 2/25/2014 2:47 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> To be completely honest,

I should hope so :-)

> 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.

I tend to agree. The existence of warnings in the compiler is a red flag that 
the language design needs work.

But I still support the existence of warnings in the compiler as a means to ease 
transitioning away from obsolete features.