Static Analysis Tooling / Effective D

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On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 09:22:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Coverity (a static analyzer) does checks based on whitespace 
> indentation. It's not a great leap from there to just format it.

One can also say that it is not a huge leap for compiler to do 
the same. Of course all those tool can share a lot of 
implementation and often are used together, but I think there is 
a value in keeping unrelated functionality separately available. 
UNIX-way ftw.