Fellow Julians,
I think it is time to post an update on Lint.jl
<https://github.com/tonyhffong/Lint.jl>, as it has improved quite a bit
from the initial version I started about 3 months ago.
Notable new features
- Local variable type tracking, which enables a range of features, such
as
- Variable type stability warning within a function scope.
- Incompatibility between type assertion and assignment
- Omission of returning the constructed object in a type constructor
- Check the call signature of a selected set of methods with
collection (push!, append!, etc.)
- More function checks, such as
- repeated arguments
- wrong signatures, e.g. f( x::Array{Number,1} )
- Mispelled constructor (calls new but the function name doesn't
match the enclosing type)
- Ability to silence lint warning via lintpragma() function, e.g.
- lintpragma( "Ignore unstable type variable [variable name]" )
- lintpragma( "Ignore Unused [variable name]" )
Also, there is now quite a range of test scripts showing sample codes with
lint problems, so it's easy to grep your own lint warnings in that folder
and see a distilled version of the issue.
Again, please let me know about gaps and false positives.
Tony
