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Re:Disable comments make static analysis tools worse by al2o3cr on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:03AM (#27747283)
The section "FORBID CONSTRUCTS THAT LEAD TO FALSE RESULTS" perfectly summarizes the Elm community: "my tool is smarter than you, so it will tell you how to bend your code so that it understands it"
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Re:Disable comments make static analysis tools worse by jfmengels1 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:58AM (#27747899)
This advice was for custom rules for a team, so it's about enforcing what the team has already agreed upon and understood the trade-offs, not anything the tool decided upon on its own and imposes on the team.
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