On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 18:35:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 09/26/2018 04:37 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature
wrote:
I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused
imports:
I humbly believe this does not belong to the compiler. These
sort of things belong to a static code analyser TOOL. Think of
checkstyle/findbugs in Java, or flake8/pep8 in Python world.
It amounts to the same thing. What you're talking about
ultimately boils down to nothing more than the trivial
distinction between:
toolx ...
toola --do-x ...
And if you still prefer the former, that can be trivially
created via shell alias or a one-liner script.
OTOH, If you're talking about whether action X should be taken
by default, than that's an entirely orthogonal matter to
whether or not it can be included in the compiler.
IDK, I prefer things done in the UNIX way - do one thing and do
it right. Compiler should do what its name says - COMPILE, while
some other tool should be made for these kind of code checks. The
code will compile no matter whether there are some unused imports
or not, right?
