Warn on unused imports?

[Dejan Lekic]

On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 18:35:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> On 09/26/2018 04:37 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature 
>> wrote:
>>> I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused 
>>> imports:
>> 
>> I humbly believe this does not belong to the compiler. These 
>> sort of things belong to a static code analyser TOOL. Think of 
>> checkstyle/findbugs in Java, or flake8/pep8 in Python world.
>
> It amounts to the same thing. What you're talking about 
> ultimately boils down to nothing more than the trivial 
> distinction between:
>
> toolx ...
> toola --do-x ...
>
> And if you still prefer the former, that can be trivially 
> created via shell alias or a one-liner script.
>
> OTOH, If you're talking about whether action X should be taken 
> by default, than that's an entirely orthogonal matter to 
> whether or not it can be included in the compiler.

IDK, I prefer things done in the UNIX way - do one thing and do 
it right. Compiler should do what its name says - COMPILE, while 
some other tool should be made for these kind of code checks. The 
code will compile no matter whether there are some unused imports 
or not, right?