Static Analysis Tooling / Effective D

[Walter Bright]

On 1/20/2014 8:34 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> I've checked in code to the DScanner project that gives it some basic static
> analysis capabilities. When run with the --styleCheck option, it will warn about
> a few things like empty declarations, implicit string concatenation, classes
> with lowercase_names, catching "Exception", and a few other things.
>
> There's a small feature wishlist in the project's README, but I'd like to get
> some opinions from the newsgroup: What kinds of errors have you seen in your
> code that you think a static analysis tool could help with?

Automated source code formatting would be nice (and it's not as easy as it looks).