Sounds like something that belongs in Lint.jl or similar. I, personally, have always hated those unused variable warnings, and I can't think of a single bug that I uncovered because of them.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > This would definitely be a helpful feature in a "warning mode" – it would > be great to have a pull request for this. > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Ben Southwood <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I really like the functional style of Julia as I primarily code in >> OCaml. One of the cool optional features of the OCaml compiler is that if >> you define a function and a variable is unused, the compiler will complain >> that you have a variable that was never used. I'm surprised how many bugs >> have been caught by this functionality, and I have already been bitten >> twice by this bug in Julia in my 1st week of using it! >> >> Is there a chance we will get the ability for the compiler to complain >> about unused variables? >> >> - Ben >> > >
