I don't know how feasible it is, but a (perhaps optional) inclusion of the 
functionality in https://github.com/astrieanna/TypeCheck.jl would be great!


Am 09.06.2014 um 00:46 schrieb Tony Fong <[email protected]>:

> Thanks. PR created.
> 
> I have added a few more low hanging fruits to the Lint module:
> * correct line location
> * detect duplicate keys in constructing Dict
> * detect recycling out-of-scope local variable name inside a block.
> * an heuristic attempt to detect very similarly structured consecutive 
> expressions and alert if the last one looks a bit more different from the 
> rest.
> * add interface for module-specific lint
> 
> On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:09:32 PM UTC+7, John Myles White wrote:
> Yeah, there’s some GitHub specific machinery you’ll have to learn: 
> https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request
> 
> — John
> 
> On Jun 7, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Tony Fong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, I just tried to go through the docs, now I'm stuck at "creating a 
>> pull request". I have no idea what I'm doing...
>> 
>> On Saturday, June 7, 2014 5:48:19 PM UTC+7, Tim Holy wrote:
>> Actually, I was right the first time. Needs to be registered before 
>> `Pkg.add("Lint")` will work. 
>> 
>> --Tim 
>> 
>> On Saturday, June 07, 2014 05:34:13 AM Tim Holy wrote: 
>>> Ah, it is a package already. Oops. 
>>> 
>>> --Tim 
>>> 
>>> On Friday, June 06, 2014 02:22:22 PM Tony Fong wrote: 
>>>> Hello, 
>>>> 
>>>> First of all, let me say it's been a real pleasure working in the Julia 
>>>> environment. 
>>>> 
>>>> I have been coming from a very different platform, and I noticed myself 
>>>> making mistakes of a certain pattern. So as a little side project, I wrote 
>>>> this little tool called Lint.jl that can check for some of them. 
>>>> 
>>>> It is at https://github.com/tonyhffong/Lint.jl.git 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm very new to Julia/git environment so it's a bit unpolished. But it is 
>>>> handy pointing out certain mechanical issues quickly. 
>>>> 
>>>> What it can find out now: 
>>>> - simple deadcode detection (e.g if constant-true/constant-false) 
>>>> - simple premature-return deadcode detection 
>>>> - &, | being used in a Bool context. Suggest && and || 
>>>> - Declared but unused variable 
>>>> - Using a undefined variable (not working well in macros) 
>>>> - Exporting non-existing symbols (not fully done yet, again due to 
>>>> macros) 
>>>> - Exporting the same symbol more than once. 
>>>> - Name overlap between a variable and a lambda argument 
>>>> - Assignment in an if-predicate, as a potential confusion with “==” 
>>>> - Using globals in function without declaring them (This one isn't an 
>>>> error, but I personally prefer explicit declaration of globals 
>>>> dependency 
>>>> 
>>>> inside functions for readability.) 
>>>> 
>>>> - length() being used as Bool. It'd suggest using isempty() 
>>>> 
>>>> I'd love to hear comments and feedback. Thank you for your consideration. 
>>>> 
>>>> Tony 
>>>> 
>>>> p.s. I have pointed this to base/sysimg.j. The result is illuminating (for 
>>>> me at least). The obviously substantial macro-related noise is a great way 
>>>> for me to learn what wizardry it been used for. 
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