On Feb 14, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:

>
> On Feb 14, 2009, at 13:54 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> TX!!!!
>> I think that we should be more aggressive with the tools we have.
>> I'm currently going over the 25000 issues raised by SmallLint and
>> entering issues in the bugtracker.
>
> wow, great!
>
>> I think that we will need to add annotations so that smallLint does
>> not get warning us
>> when we know that this is not a problem
>
> yes, this is very important. We do that with pragmas (see Lukas'
> mail). Lint rules are part of the conventional tests and the rule is
> that these must be green. There are cases where Lint complains but you
> know it is ok. If we couldn't annotate these methods as ok, the whole
> thing would not work.
>
> In the long term, I think it would be really cool if we manage to get
> the Pharo core Lint-clean!

YESYESYES!!!
We have great tools and an extremely powerful language and we should use
them to make the code robust, nice and cool.

Stef
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