questions from using lint

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Fri May 23 02:39:27 AEST 1986


One (relatively minor) defect of grouping by indentation is that it is
sometimes useful to use indenting violations to flag unusual situations.
The obvious example is a classic one:  temporary debugging code not
indented at all, to make it easy to find and remove later.

More seriously, any grouping-by-indenting scheme should be studied carefully
for ways in which minor typos could seriously alter the meaning of the
program in non-obvious ways.
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