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 (.
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.