Re:Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
by sliverstorm on Monday February 24, 2014 @05:05PM
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Ah well, perhaps it's just a difference in experience. I've never used a linter (there are countless linters) that fixed indentation, arranged if statements, and inserted newlines to wrap long lines. Nor has a formatter ever helped me find the sort of issues I use a linter to find.
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Re:Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
by maw on Monday February 24, 2014 @09:30PM
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There is overlap. I once lost a fair amount of time because some dimwit predecessor thought putting anything other than a space after commas was acceptable. (It sounds ridiculous but it's true. I can explain if you care.)
So: a formatter will, for example, make sure your lines are indented to some standard amount of indentation, a linter will bitch if they are not, and both the formatter and the linter should DTRT when they identify certain indefensible coding practices.
Re:Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
by he_the_great on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @03:16PM
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I wouldn't want to reach for lint to handle formatting, that is what indent is for. That is to say, lint should not complain that the if should contain a space before the (.