On 2018-09-25 16:20, FeepingCreature wrote:
If that's the way D wanted to go, it shouldn't have turned itself into a metaprogramming monster that's completely unevaluable by Linter tools, *or* it should offer some way to dump a fixed-format lowered representation with line number information that tools can analyze. As it stands, it is literally impossible to evaluate whether an import is unused without evaluating the entire compile-time subset of D.
The DMD compiler is available as a library. A linter tool can be based on that.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
